Breaking The Rules

For this assignment I was asked to post a picture breaking the rules of photography. Here is my shot.

I like this shot for a number of reasons. I realize that this is a gamble posting this as many of the people who see this will not see it the way I do, but I was to entranced with the picture to not put it up. If one clicks on the image, they will notice the only thing that is clear are the lights. I wanted that. The lights almost seem like people to me. The thing that makes cities beautiful at night is not the buildings themselves, but the light which they give. Without the light their beauty would be nothing. Thus, light is the essence of beauty, for without it beauty would not exist. In this picture I have captured the most beautiful thing, the light. 

Portraits

For this assignment my teacher asked me to take photographs in the style of portrait. My subject is one of my friends, named Clay. I love the shots I got. Here they are.

This is my shot, or at least the shot for this assignment. I love this shot because I think it represents a portrait the most. I think that it is the most representative of a portrait then most of my other shots. I really like this shot because it catches him in true human action. Most portraits that are taken are of humans in a faked actions and emotions. I believe I have caught clay in this instance in his real actions and emotions. Something I have ever rarely done. 

The rest of my shots are from this same assignment. I just really like a ton of them. I hope you like them as well. Please let me know what you think.

Words in Nature

 For this assignment my teacher asked me to go out and find natural letters in all of my surroundings and make a word from them. My assignment was to find words in their natural state though, not to find man made letters. I set out with one word in my mind, and I found it. Here it is.

     If one looks at the letters I have spelled out they would be soon to notice that I have spelled out the letters to Yahweh. I chose this word because it is the hebrew name for the God that I believe in. I knew instantly that it was what I wanted to do because quite frankly it is so easy to find God's name in his creation. His name is something very sacred to me, and in times is my greatest source of strength.

The next thing I chose were my numbers. I came up with the number eighteen simply for that is the amount of years I have relied on God for life. I thought they simply fit together better than anything I could have ever imagined. Really for this post I am wordless as to what I can say because it means so much more to me than I can express.

Words in Natural

Pictures from up top

For this assignment my task was to take pictures from the perspective of being on top. In essence, and the easiest way to describe this, would be to take a birds eye view. My initial thoughts were to get on a plane and take shots looking down. However, I am not a billionaire and I have not a personal jet for my own use, so instead I went out to get my own shots. Here they are.

This is my first shot. It was in the one hour my teacher gave us to take photos on campus. The shot represents a lot more than I could possibly say. The flower for me brings no joy but at the same time brings beauty. The first emotion it evokes in me is death. The flower is passing on. No longer alive it slowly withers and goes back into the earth. However, it will come back. Not as itself but as its children. Next spring it's children will give it praise by being the wonderful colors it once use to be. I believe this represents human life. People pass but live on every day as the descendants of who their fathers were. Every person lives a legacy that will be carried on by those after him. 

This photograph I think is my favorite of the two shots. Trails mean the world to me. I am an outdoorsman and a backcountry hiker so trails represent to me the journey of life. As I was coming up these stairs I was pondering those very thoughts. About how life can be hard to endure sometimes. It seems at some points that I am constantly climbing with no support. It is in these time I forget to look down and just notice how beautiful things are, both under me and around me. Life is a very long trail for me, and I think at the end of it I shall be somewhere very beautiful.