Forever Photographed

Post 6! Final comparison (294 words)

This project seems un-relatable to Bill Bryson’s hiking story, which is what I thought when I read the requirement. Now that I’m typing this though, and really thinking about it, they have some things alike.

Everyone has their struggles, right? Well, Bryson had his with the Appalachian Trail, and I have mine with pictures. They are two totally different things, but when you dumb them both down, they are just goals of people who want to accomplish something for themselves. Bryson had his difficulties preparing for his trip and traveling along it, like I had my difficulties figuring little things out about my camera and making the pictures I wanted come out the way I wanted them or better. 

When I started this project I wasn’t really sure what to do with it. Was I supposed to just walk around and take pictures of simple things, or push my limits on what I thought would work? Pushing your limits has its ups and downs and Bryson knew that for sure. You push too hard, you could fall and not get up again, yet if you don’t push yourself, are you really living, or just passing by something that could be amazing?

Bill Bryson pushed himself to do something he thought would be great and look how that turned out for him. I guess what I’m trying to say is that like Bryson, I pushed myself to become a better photographer. What I got out of it was amazing- and colorful- so when you want to do something to help you, don’t think twice. Make it to the top and don’t look down. You know there will be challenges waiting for you, just be ready to push past anything that gets in your way.

Post 5 :D (194 words)

This project has helped me improve so much, and I’m glad I chose a hobby I know I will continue after this summer. I have made sure to take picture if a variety of things, from birds and puppies, to flowers, sunsets and buildings. I have edited some and left some as they originally were and I feel like it all worked out rather well.

This past week I have messed with colors a lot. I took a picture of raindrops on a leaf and changed the colors. I also “color splashed” another picture of a tiny mushroom and it helped make the picture a bit more exciting. Colors are always fun to expirement with in pictures and you always come out with a different outcome, sometimes one you didn’t even expect to have. 

I will proudly continue taking photos every chance I get and have decided it would be a good idea to make a list of things I want pictures of and cool places to go to get some pictures like parks or trails. I’m so glad this was my choice and am happy with the way I have helped myself improve.

Post 4!!! (449 words)

Another week, another post, and a lot of pictures.

That little hippie girl from July 21st is my adorable cousin, Cara. I cross processed and bronzed it back and forth a few times until it looked like this. Well, and I got her to pose because it’s a sweet picture of her. 

The picture of the bench is at the pond off of Crescent Lake road near Hatchery. I had to sit up there and wait to take my road test while my brother took his. I took the swan pictures there and also some pictures by the socer field. Black and white pictures take all the color away and make you look at the actual picture. There’s nothing distracting you from what’s there that might actually be interesting.

The next photo is also black and white, but it isn’t from Michigan. This picture I took on our Florida trip to Disney with the high school music programs. I was in epcot when I took this and I’m not really sure what this building is. I think it’s some sort of cafe, and I wasn’t really paying attention, I think I was talking to someone. Who would’ve thought I could take a cool picture while paying attention to everything else.

Hey look, another black and white! I think I took atleast thirty pictures off the boardwalk by my lake and I didn’t think anything of them until a while later, which is when this one stuck out a little. This is probably one of the few I will actually use from that day. I thikn trees can look really pretty but I couldn’t ever really make them look as nice in a picture. This was in the winter so everything is empty and I think it helps make each individual thing more bold in a way. Instead of everything being hidden by green like they are now you can see all the little details.

My next sunset picture is covered up a little bit by my flip flop, and it’s cross processed. This is when I was taking a bunch of close ups of everything and it was on the fourth of July, the same night as a sunset picture that I posted a while ago. I think I also have a sunset picture from that night with the dog that I also posted a picture of a long time ago. 

This week I had a few black and whites as you can see, and I have to say that they are a couple of my favorites that I have posted so far, but maybe I’ll find some that will out do them, who knows what’ll happen next right?