Category: Story Telling

For this project, I thought it would be a fun idea to make an ‘advertisement’ for the modern convenience of packaging. The way things are packaged makes things very easy to manage and convenient – and I thought that showcasing that through a photo of an interesting form of packaging (or a way of packaging M&Ms that’s rather unique) would be a fun idea.

For this project, of the seven sins, I chose gluttony. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what I wanted kind of photo I wanted to take for this blog, but when I was out eating with friends, I realized that it would be a perfect opportunity to take a photo for the sin of gluttony – not only because we had just finished our plates, but because Lucy Good (shown in the photo above) is known for having a big personality. I thought that the setting and the subject of Lucy in the photo would fit the theme well, which is why I snapped the photo.

For this project, we were supposed to take a photo that was dark and moody. While the garage is lit up for this photo, I thought that the light reflecting on the wall in a red color would help make the image look moody. I’m not quite sure what the story is for this one – I feel like it’s a shot that implies something about the person not being home because the car isn’t in the garage? But I did like how it turned out, which is why I chose it for this photo blog.

So, I didn’t properly read the requirements of the assignment – I didn’t realize that the photo was supposed to be something that represents the New Year, whoops?

For this assignment, I tried to take a high exposure photo during the night time – and it was as I was testing my camera in my mom’s car that I took this photo. I really like it a lot – in Japanese, the word we use to describe a green traffic light is “ao”, or “blue”. I’d never understood why it was that we called it blue, because it’s so obviously green – but when I took this photo, it made me think, Oh, so this is why – and after that I couldn’t help but get attached to this photo.

If I was going to take the photo again, this time fully complying with the assignment, I would probably try to take a photo of the moon. It’s the year of the rabbit, and in Japanese culture it’s said that there’s a rabbit making mochi on the moon, so it would fit better with the theme. Next time!!

It took me a while to ultimately decide on this photo for the friends and family prompt. Originally, I planned on taking photos of certain objects around the house that my family members considered important to them – and hoped that that would be able to tell a story about them. I took multiple photos around the house, and ultimately realizes that none of them were photos that I actually liked – and thought that instead of trying to take a new photo, I could look through some of my older photos of my friends, to see if any of them told a good story.

Ultimately, I decided on this one. I’m not quite sure what story this is telling, but there is undeniable something happening here, so I thought it worked well.

For this photo assignment, the theme was culture. While the photos presented here are photos I took with my phone, I thought that it would be appropriate to use them – as they were both photos that I took in Japan over the past summer. The first photo I chose because it showcases what a yard looks like from the inside of a traditional Japanese house – and I thought it would be a recognizable display of Japanese culture that anyone might know. The second image I chose, because it was one I took while doing Hakamairi, or visiting (usually a family member’s) a grave. I didn’t take any photos of the grave itself out of respect, but I did take photos as we walked throughout the temple – and I thought that that was a good showcase of my culture. Ultimately I couldn’t choose between the two photos, which is why I decided to just post both.

For the shadow prompt, I thought it would be a cool idea to take a photo of something mostly in shadow – so the highlights/areas not in shadow would pop out and make the photo more interesting or engaging. Of all the photos I took, this one was my favorite – I took it in the living room, where my mother has a lot of her plants set up near the window.

When I first thought of the prompt “new beginnings”, an empty notebook or sketchbook was the first thing that came to mind. It’s always so much fun to have a notebook unfilled – because there’s so much potential as to what you could fill it with – to see what will become of it from beginning to end – which is why I chose for my photo to take a picture of a new notebook. (I have a huge collection of empty notebooks and sketchbooks, I really need to start filling them before buying new ones).

The prompt for this particular photo was “Love Story.” Love doesn’t always have to mean romance – it can also refer to familial love, platonic love, or love of hobbies, interests, specific, items – it’s a topic that isn’t limited. So for this photo, I thought it would be fun to incorporate things that I personally love – manga (though in this case these are more zines and advertisements for manga than the actual thing), as well as my stuffed bear that I’ve had ever since I was a baby, given to me by my grandmother. I chose to take the photo on my bed and had the bear lean against my blanket, because sleeping and relaxing is also something I love.

Warmth can be different things – the warmth of a fire place, of food, or the warmth you feel when one does something for others. There are many ways to interpret warmth. I chose to a combination of the latter two – the making of food for others. I took this photo during the time which my younger sister was helping to teach someone on how to make sushi – and of all the photos I took, I believe this one turned out the best.