I can’t recall who made these magnets for our family, but they’ve been on a file cabinet in the office for as long as I can remember. It’s been ages since our family’s been all together like the gatherings in the photos, especially after the death of my grandmother on my mom’s side (shown in…
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Your Habits
The prompt for this assignment was to choose a habit, either good or bad, and incorporate it into your photo. I choose to capture my bad habit of drinking coffee. My friend got me a tumbler and some instant iced coffee packets for my birthday, and since then I’ve drank coffee almost every morning. It’s…
Facial Symmetry
I do find it a bit creepy how initially normal my symmetrical faces are. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t look correct, but if you look only at the symmetrical right face, it looks just like…someone’s face. The same thing’s true to a lesser extent with the symmetrical right face. The main thing about me…
Your Culture
My mom found these old license plates at the top of a box in our garage. She moved around a lot when she was my age, getting her driver’s license in Georgia, then moving and getting a new car in Virginia. It was a super cool find, and I put them up on my wall…
Exit
Yes, I did use my Author photo as my final photo challenge. Let me explain: at the beginning of this year, I was unsure of my creative vision. I doubted that I could stay afloat in the world of Freestyle since I had never worked in graphic design or film before. I’d heard horror stories…
Freedom
There’s a small mirror on top of the shoe-bin in the front room of my house. The wooden panelling looks a bit like bars in a jail cell. I’ve been avoiding looking in the mirror lately since everything’s been very drab and boring, including me. I’ve become trapped in mundanity, a feeling encapsulated every time…
Geometry
I’m really proud of my antique books. I’ve collected them from a variety of thrift shops, garage sales, and even family members (the plain tan book on the right is a collection of Shakespeare’s writing from my grandparent’s house – I think it’s from the late 1700s!). I redid my room recently and had to…
Tell A Lie
My maternal grandmother collected a lot of cat figures and decorations, like this door stopper that sits at the top of our staircase. The trouble with this one is, it looks eerily similar to our cat, who likes to spend her time sitting at the top of the staircase in a similar position. Whenever I’m…
Leading Lines
I read about this photo challenge right as the banana bread that my mom had been making came out of the oven. It was the perfect opportunity to explore leading lines in food, so I cut a slice off and used the knife to bring the eye towards the bread. I used my Canon in…
Stranger
I’ve been taking a lot more walks recently since it’s hard to get regular exercise with the shelter-in-place. As such, I’ve seen a lot of my neighbors walking around with their kids or playing basketball in their front yards. I knew that this would be a good subject for this week’s photo challenge, but I…