Saturday, November 29, 2008
























































My joy of photography is numerous and varies. I take considerable pleasure in observing how the different seasons and lighting effect nature. Water and its movement is another area that is extremely fascinating to me. Hiking new areas and capturing interesting scenes or objects helps energize me and my photography. Attempting to freeze that moment in time and hopefully convey to the viewer the emotions that I felt when clicking the shutter of my camera.

Nature is not my only source of pleasure when photographing. I love viewing and taking photographs of architecture, old cars or any other unique object. When recording architecture it’s not the whole building or the location but the lines, shapes and textures that I concentrate on. In fact this is my main focus on almost all of photography. I work towards getting in a little closer, not capturing the whole but small details that are more graphical in nature.

In my Junk Yard series, the goal was to record the beauty that can be found in places that some would see only junk, rust or decay. Finding unusual textures, lines, shapes and color is what I truly enjoy when out photographing. When I’m shooting at junk yards, the older the car the better, they have more unique details, but for this shoot I also took photographs of newer models. I was attempting to show the same type of graphical images. This was difficult for me because when viewing the new cars all I saw were snapshots, this was not what I was working towards.

My goal in photography is to create images that are beautiful and unique. Not only do I enjoy taking images of nature and architecture but also fashion, product, portrait and events. My photographs don’t have any social or political symbolism or any type of narrative nor do they have hidden conceptual meanings. If the viewer reads some type of message within the image that’s great, but at no time am I purposely conveying any abstract meaning.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Junk Yard Photos - Final Project






































































In my Junk Yard series, the goal was to record the beauty that can be found in places that some would see only junk, rust or decay. Finding unusual textures, lines, shapes and color is what I truly enjoy when out photographing. When I’m shooting at junk yards, the older the car the better, they have more unique details, but for this shoot I also took photographs of newer models. I was attempting to show the same type of graphical images. This was difficult for me because when viewing the new cars all I saw were snapshots, this was not what I was working towards.

My goal in photography is to create images that are beautiful and unique. Not only do I enjoy taking images of nature and architecture but also fashion, product, portrait and events. My photographs don’t have any social or political symbolism or any type of narrative nor do they have hidden conceptual meanings. If the viewer reads some type of message within the image that’s great, but at no time am I purposely conveying any abstract meaning.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Critical Mass

The areas that I focused on for the lay out of this assignment was looking at lines, shapes and textures. Throughout most of the lay out process I never worried about the content of any of the images. When out photographing I only went to three locations and just took pictures with that same idea of just lines, shapes and textures. It didn't turn out as well as I had hope though. But such is life.