Digital 7--Portraits

 This is my best friend, Michelle.  She's gorgeous.  We were on the New York trip together and i was just shooting pictures while we were eating lunch on Saturday.  I got this amazing, unposed, candid shot of Michelle smiling at something my other best friend, Yule, had said.  I love this picture.  She's framed by the pillar behind her and looks so relaxed and happy.

Yule, my best friend, agreed to let me take this picture of her on the board walk.  I took quite a few photos, but in this one Yule was just ending a smile, and looked really sincere and serene and beautiful.  I love this photo a lot.  She is just gorgeous, and i love her little dimple.  This is mostly candid, because she didn't know i took this picture, but she looks amazing.

Film 4--Texture, Hands

 I knit a lot.  It's a hobby that my best friend in the whole world, Elisabeth, taught me.  Here, my mother is holding my ball of yarn.  I had a lamp off to the right, and the texture in the yarn i really prominent.

 Contact Sheet.

This is my mommy's hand.  I love her so much :) she has really nice veins and wrinkles and such (don't tell her that) which makes for a nice hand to photograph.

Digital 5-Texture

This is my new jacket. I heaped it on the table and noticed the interesting texture of the cloth. It's lit from the window as well as the kitchen light. I love this jacket, and it looked quite interesting.

My new bag that I carry everywhere. It has lots of texture and patterns on it. I threw it on my kitchen table and snapped a couple of pictures of it for the texture of it.

Digital 6-Hands

These are my daddy's hands. He has nice hands to photograph, because they're quite textured and hairy. (haha). I had him position his hands on the table so the light hit them in a way that created lots of shadows and such.

Again, these are my dad's hands. I again had him put his hands on the table and shot them. In this photo, you can see the texture of his veins on his left hand (our right side.)

Film 3--Rule of Thirds, Lines

 I took this photo of my beautiful baby sister Sarah in our backyard.  I loved how the branches framed her face, the lines drawing your eyes to hers.  She was standing behind a tiny tree.

 Contact sheet.

This was the sunrise off my back porch.  The sun was framed between two trees, creating both a center of interest and a rule of thirds and lines.  The branches are the lines, and the sun is about a third up and off to the left.  It was so pretty.

Digital 4- Lines

This bead came off my favorite bracelet.  it happened to land on the placemat at my kitchen table.  i liked how the crisscrosses framed the bead, which created a center of interest.

The moon decided to come out 4 hours too early.  I noticed how the branches all pointed toward the moon, framing it perfectly with strong lines.

Film 1 & 2 Motion, Depth

 This leaf was on my porch railing one day.  As I got closer, I noticed the interesting dots on its underside, so I took the shot very close and with hardly any depth.  I believe it turned out nicely.

 This is the drive to my favorite place, my barn. I've always loved how there are woods on both sides of the fenced road.  I used a wide aperature and took in lots of depth.

 Contact sheet.

 This is my puppy Andy.  This shot is pure luck; I didn't have anything set on my camera, and i jut shot a very quick picture.  I was lucky to get such a great motion shot.

This is my puppy Jasper.  He was walking, and I shot him with a fast shutter speed, fast enough to freeze his body, but not his head.