Photo Blogs

Storytelling – September 12th

This tells the story of my family’s Croatian heritage and how it plays a role in every aspect of our lives.

Croatian Coat of arms in my cluttered garage.

Inspiration – September 26th

This photo exemplifies my terrible habit of checking my phone an unnecessary amount of times per day.

Phones on in class.

Storytelling – October 10th

This is my friend Roni. I really like this picture because she looks so happy but you cant tell she’s about to fail her calc final.

My friend Roni.

Composition – October 17th

This picture was taken during my Agri-ecology class. It is a picture of my friends garden. I thought the color contrast did a fantastic job filling the frame.

Garden.

Inspiration – October 24th

This is a picture of my friend Sam. She is one of my closest friends and inspires me to do the best that I can every single day.

Sam and a flower.

Storytelling – November 7th

This is a picture of my Agri-ecology teacher harvesting some plants.

Mr. Russo.

Composition – November 14th

This is a picture I took of an eraser with a smiley face and a candy cane. I think this perfectly exemplifies emotion to the most intense degree.

candy cane.

Inspiration – November 21st

To properly express my gratitude, I found it fitting that I include a photo of my friends.

My friends.

Storytelling – December 5th

The weather changing has been the source of a lot of my photos. I love the way the trees look as the weather gets cooler.

Trees.

Composition – December 12th

This is a photo of my friends plants.

Bulbs.

Inspiration – December 17th

This is a photo I took of water droplets on a leaf I found. I liked the way it exemplifies the relationship between earth and water.

water droplets.

blog post #40-Storytelling – storms – January 10th

These are clouds gathering between trees right before its about to start raining. This portrays the intensity of the “calm before the storm.”

clouds.

blog post #41 – Composition – color theory – January 24th

This was taken in at our local supermarket. The variety of colors makes this visually and aesthetically pleasing.

magazines.

blog post #42-Inspiration – work – January 31st

This week I was inspired by our local supermarket employees.

Matthew hard at work.

blog post #43-Story Telling – film noir – February 7th

Film Noir is a dark and moody sort of photography. I chose dark and moody subject matter to capture this idea.

Matthew on the escalator.

blog post #44-Composition – viewpoint – February 14th

This photo was taken with the intention of mimicking the view of a bird about to land on this pike.

westwind pike.

blog post #45-inspiration – Musical – February 28th

This week I let music inspire me. When walking through downtown Los Altos, I found a poster for an upcoming musical. I loved the design of the poster so I found it fitting for this weeks prompt

ruthless!

blog post #46-Story Telling – Deadly Sins – March 14th

The Seven Deadly Sins prompt inspired me to do my homework because sloth is one of the most deadly 🙂 (as pictured below)

tired Matthew

blog post #48- Current Events – March 28th

For this week, I let current events inspire me. A very prevalent current event is global warming so this week, I photographed cars.

cars.

blog post #49 – Story Telling – Modern convenience – April 4th

For this prompt, I figured what convenience could be more modern than the easily accessible cell phone? The dependency on devices is plaguing the world.

tiktok.

blog post #50 – composition – using props – April 18th

I decided to use what was readily available to me to create a photo that matched this prompt.

wizard matthew.

blog post #51 – inspiration – food – April 25th

My go to food when walking through downtown Los Altos is pizza!

pizza matthew.

blog post #52 – Story Telling – Self-Portrait – May 9th

For this week, I was heavily inspired by hyper-realistic pencil drawings. These drawings are often close-up portraits so I tried to mimic that art style.

close-up megan

blog post #53 – composition – Frame within the Frame – May 16th

Framing can be the difference between a good photo and a great photo. I chose to frame this one with my cars backseat window.

liv and olivia.

blog post #54 – inspiration – Future – May 23rd

For the idea of “future” I was inspired by my own future plans and goals.

syracuse merch.