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,…

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…

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…

I was walking down the stairs when I noticed the sunset through the window. By turning the shutter speed down, I was able to capture the light of the setting sun and only the silhouette of the window frame and background, like my neighbor’s roof and tree. I’d…

To create a symbolic self portrait that doesn’t include my face, I decided to take a photo of my nightstand. I thought it captured my raw self; it’s a place where I put random things that I use in my everyday life, and often are too random or…