Spring Journalist

Spring is defently one of the most beautiful times of the years. When that ray of hope first comes that Winter may finally be over and summer once again will return. Other then pesky Spring pollen causing allergies - I don't really see how you can not enjoy it.
My job was to shoot pictures of spring, trying to show that ray of hope. But I have to do it like a journalist meaning no Photoshop. What pictures you take are the ones that come out. You get what you see. No Photoshop to hide your mistakes. Ohh and I have to do a fancy write-up on it. No problem.

              Nothing really much to report today. It's kind of cold outside where I live and the shadows of the early evening are starting set. It's a perfect opportunity to take pictures - I have plenty of light.
I start out my journey by going to my conveinty located river in the back of yard. You have to love that. Now is the time of the year where pollen falls through the air and lands where ever it wants. Including the mighty river. Yes, even a strong mighty river battles with the seemingly average pollen as it clogs it's rythem of flow. I choose this photo because it has a nice composition. I also thinks this is a nice reflection of what time of the year it is.

Parallel lines in nature with a beautiful sun and clouds and river to match. Truly not an easy task. I wanted to capture the time of the day by showing of the sun.  I took this photo before the top one, looking over a little ledge type thing standing on my toes trying to get a nice steady shot of what was ahead of me. Compared to the first, the river looks strong and infinite and it stands probley by itself. It also looks calm and peaceful, like it is going to be settling down for a nice afternoon nap. I choose this photo because there is so much to look at it, and yet it's so simple. A visionary photo. The two parallel trees standing by itself seem to represent something by itself. The scrawny one leaning upon a slighty bigger one. It hardly looks like it can hold it's own weight. Sometimes that's how life is. You have to carry others and help them through when you can hardly carry yourself. And you can always look back and see the beauty behind you and be able to smile for a little while.

I was walking back from the river when I stumbled upon this little tiny nut. Above me was tree producing probley hundreds of these, and over it's long life probley thousands. I don't what it was, but I found this trail of nuts in the small area interesting. This little guy was stuck somewhat in the mud. It's a nice contrast of colors as the green leaves come though. Little tiny weeds are too big for this nut, over crowding it and making themselves look big. Perhaps the nut is confined and is happy being protected in a way in a nice shady spot, less obvious then it's companions, hoping that a squirrel won't drag it off and eat it alive. Who knows, mabey that is what little nuts want. Mabey the little weeds are hiding and overprotecting it from the world. Mabey they are even bullies to it.

Haha who knows what a simple little nut like this would want. :) But just a simple little analogy or thought to describe this picture, a simple little story/caption for your entertainment.

Return of the Giants

 It was a long weekend, I mean a chaotic uncorignatied weekend. I got very little sleep, hardly ate, and didn't do much for homework expect for re-reading Romeo and Juliet for English class. It was prom weekend. And through all the chaoticness of going to the hair salon, getting readying, going to prom, pulling several muscles in my back, sleepover, waking up early with less then an hours sleep then parading off to go to country benefit concert. Finally the 2 days were over and Monday came. As weird as this is and I doubt i'll ever say it again; but I'm glad and happy it's Monday, mabey now I can relax. Anyways there is my long story about why I haven't gotten around to post my last too blog post that I'm suppose to do. I took next blog photo's I just forgot the card (honestly) the weekend assignment, not even thought about what I should do. I'll think of something.

Ok, enough blabber. It's time to do what I'm suppose to do and post pictures. I'm making up for it by posting a second land of giants photo that I did. This one isn't as good. My original concept  for this shoot is that I would take picture of myself with a chainsaw chopping down this great big monseral of thing. More commonly known to us as a dandelion.  ( Thanks dad for letting my use yours - trying to buy one my age would of been hard.) Unfortunately I realized that most of the chainsaws that I took chopped out my feet, making it kind of hard to look like I was realistically standing. The tips of the blade got a little funny too. I wasn't planning of posting this, but I'm trying to make up for having not to show.

I could go on and on about reasons why this doesn't look realistic and really corny looking. But I'll leave that to you. Rember though that I did this one out of and fun, I realized from the time I loaded it into photoshop that my pictures wouldn't mix well. Just for laughs.
              By the way; English class kids don't the opportunity get to play with real chainsaws like photography kids do.
                            

Land of the Giants

       The next assignment is probley my favorite one so far. I had so much fun not only taking the photos and trying to think of a great idea, but unlike the simple editing on Photoshop and then publishing, I spent several days editing trying to make it look realistic.
The theme of this shoot was to capture a picture of my self and then edit myself into an impossible situation making me look like a little tiny midget. Or that Jack and the Bean Stalk fairy tale came true, and somehow I ended up climbing up the the stalk looking for the golden egg in the Land of Giants. I'm a small person,  but I'm not this small. :)
    I hope you enjoy this photo, it was a pain to edit mostly because of the shadow I had to put in. Such a fake. But looking at it, I don't know, I think it turned out pretty well. A happy accident.

Details

My last assignment seem to focus on big things and not specific details in trying to look for the alphabet in real life. My next assignment gave me a little less stress. But it didn't give me direction in what I should take pictures of. Finding specific detail was what I was looking for. Usually this means a small depth of field.  I don't feel like talking/typing as much as usual. Compared to most photo blogs, sometimes I wonder if my text is is taking away from the point of the blog. It is a pitcure blog after-all. Mabey I'm just running out of random things to bring up.



      These pictures are un-edited. I feel like I had a good turnout, and sometimes pictures just seem better if you are able to say this is what you took with your camera, not what photoshop gave you.

                                                    

    This is the only picture of the lot of about 200 the I edited. Mabey that doesn't count much because the only changes that I made was change it to B&W on photo bucket.

     There you have it. A blog post where I didn't give a half a page chat on each picture.

ABC Post

Success! Hopefully another large photography assignment is finished. Instead of taking a few descent photos I ended up having to hunt and shoot 26 worthy photos for this assignment. But don't worry, it's not a long long parade of photos. Just one large image. I had to look for the alphabet in every day life in my surroundings. I had to find an object(s) that look like the actual letter. Even more difficult, I had to deal with photoshop who was not in a happy mood with me. I got 25 letters organized in a nice document, but then 'Z' was feeling like a rebel and refused to work in the nice little arraignment where it was suppose to be. I believe I spent over 10 minutes trying to get the last letter to align. Somehow I managed. I hope you enjoy this picture/collage. Especially 'Z'. I was so close to just leaving it off.

                    A couple look more 'man-made' then what I was suppose to have. But I think it makes an intresting perspective. Some images I found in my backyard, some in the local park. (Thanks mom for driving me) Others even in my own house/garage. I was running out of time with a few of them. So, I guess I uesed whatever I could. Like a keyboard for 'R'. Extra credit creativity points for me? :)


My  Favorite letters are: 'J' 'U' 'S' and 'I' - ironically all letters in my full name

One's I didn't like so much, or didn't turn out well:  'P' 'M'

CD Cover

I promised something big and hopefully worthwhile for those who visit my blog often. And here it is. My Assignment this time was to make up a CD cover for a fictious band/artist. I got the music Country. Go figure, the type of music that I really know nothing about. But I suppose that is the purpose of school, to make you learn about things that you really have no clue about. My lovely neighbor agreed to model in my cd album. Thanks to her, this assignment is possible.
    
    Here is the front cover design:

You can tell that this was highly photoshopped assignment because I had to create layer after layer just for 

text and the little bar code thing.

Inside Cover: 

I Really like the Inside cover, it looks so peaceful and country-ish. I didn't take either pictures for the inside cover though. Wait- isn't that the point of photography to take pictures of your own? Hmm, well I found these off of Google which is fair game, and then I edited the two pictures to molt together as one. So I did MAKE the picture, I just didn't take them. :) I took the rest though (Front and back-cover) are all mine. 

Back Cover: 

AHHH! What happened? I assure you that the back cover looked more proportionately in size when the actually version in photoshop was made, It just came out it a bit funny on here.    -__-

Do you enjoy the song titles? They make me laugh. 

Cool things

I Feel like I haven't made a blog post in a while. And just in case they're some awesome fans that are waiting and waiting for a blog post, I feel like I should do one. I guess that I've been busy working on two big assignments, but from the looks of it, hopefully they will be some of my best work yet! :) Here are just some cool things that happened to take picture of that I would like to share. Blahh...they are probley not that exciting, but when are any of my pictures?
                                                                        I guess this a collection of the cool things, yet simple in life. 

                                                      Flowers. Yes tiny flowers, some people don't even see them and recognize their beauty. I particularity like this kind though. Not as much as sunflowers. But they are soo cute and little. ^^

                                                            Squirrels. Funny little creatures they are, especially when deformed in color, or just the recessive gene is showing.(or just a different breed in total) I'm sorry that this isn't a better picture but I was in a car driving when this was taken. Little squirrels don't like standing still either, I didn't ask him/her to pose for my picture, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have sat still long enough for me. So yes this is the funny squirrel I found in the park.

                                               Weird Architecture. This is actually a playground thing, it's just at a weird angle. If you look closely at it you can see multiple slides and ladders to go up and down from. That reminds me of the boardgame 'Shoots and Ladders'. Haha I remember playing that game where it taught you moral values and cause and effect. It was so much fun to play when I was little. But now, it just kinda seems boring. I'm getting off topic. I like this picture cause it looks chaotic and messy if you have no idea what it is, and yet something about it catches my eye.