Stranger

This week’s photo challenge prompt was to tell the story of a stranger through our photography. I had taken this photo of a person walking while I was in New York over Spring Break. Although I don’t know anything about the person pictures, it’s interesting to think about what their life might be like. I’ll …

Aging

The photo challenge this week was “aging”, and I thought that this photo that I’d taken during autumn captured that nicely. The bright colors of the leaves on the ground and in the trees represent that aging is all around us. I felt that plants represented this idea well, and this picture was very visually …

Shadow

The prompt this week had me photograph shadows in order to tell a story. When looking around for inspiration, I saw these bikes that were next to each other that cast a really interesting-looking showing onto the ground. I thought it was cool how different parts of the shadow had darker and lighter values due …

New Beginnings

For this week’s photo challenge, the prompt was to take a photo that told the story of a new beginning. I feel that this photo of a sunrise captures the idea in the prompt quite well. A sunrise represents that start of a new day, and which each new day, a new story. The bright …

Hometown

The challenge this week was to take a photo that told the story of my hometown. One part of Mountain View that I really love is all of the fall colors around this time of year. I chose to take a picture of the view from my house. I really like the variety of colors …

Love Story

This week’s photo challenge was to “tell a love story” through a photograph. To do this, I chose to take a picture of my younger sister silhouetted against the sky making a heart with her hands. This shape she’s making as well as the warm tones of the sunset in the background work to represent …

Warmth

To represent warmth for this week’s photo challenge, I photographed some lights that I have hanging up in my house. The color of the lights was a soft yellowish color that I felt represented warmth fairly well. I used a high shutter speed and a low ISO to make the background appear darker. When editing, …

Self Portrait

The prompt this week was to take a self-portrait without showing my face. To do this, I photographed a tree in my backyard. This photo acts as a “self-portrait” because I really enjoy spending time in nature and outside. The leaves are also a very soothing shade of green that I like a lot. I …