“Tell us a story using film noir.” Just recently, I was in Pittsburgh to tour Carnegie Mellon University and have an interview with their music school, which is currently one of my top choices for higher education. I took this picture atop a hill overlooking the river delta, where the Ohio splits into the Allegheny…

“Juxtapose the small and the large.” I was torn over whether I wanted to use this photo for the silhouette prompt or this prompt, but I like the juxtaposition of my younger brother, almost a blip in the frame, looking over the vast ocean. Each one of us makes up 0.0000000125% of the world’s population,…

“Earth, Fire, Wind, Rain, and Spirit. Take an inspirational photo of an element of our world.” Earth. Our home, our world, our big ball floating in space. Traditionally, when we think of the element of Earth, we think of the ground that we stand on. Yet, to me, the element of the Earth is the…

“Capture a reflection” Well, simple enough. This photo was taken at a small stream in South Lake Tahoe while I was visiting family who lives up there. This stream isn’t particularly interesting or grand– it’s small, frigid, and deceptively deep. There was also a massive crayfish carcass right out of frame. In a way, I…

“Every exit is an entry to somewhere else. Be inspired by your exit this week.” Welp, it’s the final photo blog for this year. However, not my last photo blog at Freestyle! For my exit photo, I decided to try and follow the train tracks near my house until I could find some sort of…

“It is said that the camera never lies. Prove that wrong.” The other day, after my sister left for school, I decided to get creative and set up her favorite stuffed animals on her bed to look as if they were laying face to face and having a conversation so she’d be surprised when she…

“What does serenity mean to you?“ Well, it’s easy to show a nature scene and connect it to the feeling of serenity. Many people tend to attribute said feeling to an image like the one above, which is absolutely fair. There is definitely a calming feeling attached to nature. This is a “macro shot” I…

“Golden Hour is a magical time of day. Capture it.” This is a photo that I took with my camera while visiting Northwestern University in Chicago. I was looking forward to capturing a photo of the golden hour sky shining down on the Chicago skyline, but unfortunately the clouds rolled in while I was doing…

“Peer into a soul through an eye” While not quite the typical macro shot that eye photography is, I chose to capture this image from an angle to add a sort of cartoon-ish foreshortening effect. The subject here is my younger sister, Abby, on the trampoline in our backyard. Despite not being the only thing…

“Water is precious and beautiful.” It also happens to make some very good-looking reflections. I took this photo while I was in Portland, Oregon for more college touring. Near my hotel was this incredibly beautiful Chinese tea garden, tucked away in a corner of the urban city streets. In the middle of the garden was…