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in our weekly photo blog, one of our challenges is to take photos that communicate a story.
I personally find celebrity culture so fascinating. We put people who pretend to be other people (or who sing to us or who yell at their family on TV) on this pedestal and imagine them to be more than human. It’s like a weird social experiment. But yes, I do have a candle with Timothée […]
I revisited our lovely cherry blossoms from my last post. The vibrance of their youth is quickly decaying to more muted tones. I think they look even more beautiful. The transparence of the dying petals gives the flowers an otherworldly appearance: ethereal and elegant. The brown at the edges of the blossom on the right […]
When my sister was little, I would tell her stories about the ghost who inhabited our room. These tales made her squeal with fear, but I rather imagined our ghost, Miriam, to be the kind, friendly sort of ghost. She was a steadfast friend who knew her way around our new house, our new state, […]
January is my favorite month. Rainy, cloudy, chilly days that make my heart and mind feel warm. I don’t make any resolutions in January. It is a new year, I turn a new age, and I don’t like to dwell on what I “should” be doing. I like to take walks in the rain, staring […]
Hometown. This was a hard prompt for me. Rather than taking a picture of some landmark of our small, boring town, I decided to take an image that reminded me of how it feels to be here. Growing up traveling back and forth between California and Ohio, there was a sense of perpetual bittersweetness to […]
This week, we were challenged to take a picture that depicted a love story. I was with some friends at MVHS, and I thought this stone table framed by the two trees looked picturesque and contributed to the emotion of connection that I wanted to portray in this image.
For this week’s photo, we were challenged to take a picture which told a story of warmth. Yesterday, I was out with my friend at a beautiful field, and there was an incredible sunset. As soon as the sun dipped below the rolling green hills, the sky burst with flaming orange and yellow clouds. We […]
In this week’s entry for our photo blogs, we were challenged to take a “self-portrait” without taking a picture of ourselves. When I began to think about who I was, family was one of the first (and most important) aspects of my identity that came to mind. Truly, my parents are two of my best […]