Categories Composition

Angles

For the angles prompt this month, I photographed the stairs in my house. I feel that the presence of the shoes on the stairs and the lines of the banister are all emphasized when taking the photo from a lower angle than if I were to take the…

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Categories Inspiration

“Camera Never Lies”

The photo depicts a small bouquet of carnations with ambiguous flowers farther in the background. What the viewer probably doesn’t realize is that those ambiguous flowers are the remains of tulips that used to be alive and well alongside the carnations. This was my attempt at getting the…

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Categories Story Telling

Aging

Every year for me and my siblings’ birthdays, my mom makes a stack of pancakes with the number of pancakes being how old we’re turning. This month, I turned 17 meaning my mom had the daunting task of stacking 17 pancakes. Although this photo only shows my perspective,…

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Categories Inspiration

Serenity

I’ve always thought moss was fascinating, so this month I decided to photograph mossy rocks at a park I frequented as a child. The photo turned out magical looking in my opinion, I’m really happy with how the lighting turned out. Not only do I really like how…

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Categories Composition

Negative Space

While my parents were out of town for the weekend, I thought it would be funny to hid 100 tiny flamingos around the house. I put them everywhere. So for the negative space prompt, I decided to capture the flamingo’s small size, and photograph one of them with…

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Categories Story Telling

Shadow Story

To tell a story with shadows, I immediately thought of the shadow my phone makes whenever I try to take a picture of my math homework to submit. I thought this would be a fun and different sort of subject for me to photograph. It was hard to…

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Categories Story Telling

New Beginnings

I think this photo can speak for itself. It tells its own story of a new beginning. I tried to frame it in way so that all focus was on the sprouting leaves in order to accomplish this. I’m glad with how the composition turned out, and how…

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Categories Composition

Loneliness

I decided to capture this portrait of a lonely fire hydrant for one of this month’s photo blogs. It stands out a lot against the dark background, and is the only man-made object in photo. I think that’s what makes it to appear lonely; there’s light around it…

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Categories Inspiration

Water

This month, I went out and took some photos of water outside after it rained. One of my favorites was this small weed in a pot that I once tried planting flowers in. They never grew, but a few weeds did. I liked how this photograph turned out…

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Categories Composition

Holiday Balance

In light of Christmas, I took this photo of a little Santa figure in front of other small holiday decorations. My mom always sets up a small village of mini Christmas-themed houses, trees, and other colorful decor on our mantle or a shelf. I decided to photograph this,…

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