Category Story Telling

I am not a person who enjoys cooking. So any kind of instant meal where I don’t really have to cook it is a lifesaver for me. One of those things is Kraft Mac&Cheese. So, I went to my local grocery store and found this shelf full of…

Every time me and my friends go to Safeway, we take a look at the small rack full of baked goods that are about to expire, hoping to find a sweet treat for 50% off. This illustrates gluttony by showing the overconsumption of goods, especially food, by our…

For the film noir prompt, I decided to photograph these blinds in my house at night. I turned on cool colored lights that were behind me while keeping all other lights off in order to get the casted shadows in the background and turned the ISO up in…

For this month’s prompt of friends and family, I decided to photograph our Christmas tree. Christmas always reminds me of my mom and the rest of my family, because she always leads us in making the holidays as fun and festive as possible, starting right after Halloween. In…

To represent my culture, I decided to photograph a Korean-Chinese dish, jjajangbap (짜장밮 black bean sauce with rice). Typically, it’s served with noodles (짜장면 jjajangmyeon, black bean sauce with noodles) but rice was more convenient for me to make that tonight. I’m half Korean, but only really ate…

For the flowers prompt, I though I tell a story of the houseplant we have sitting on our kitchen counter we got recently. I thought having the flowers in the foreground and the counter and cabinets blurred in the background would show the viewer that flowers can bring…

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…