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Dandelion

The sun in this photo is so bright and luminating. It creates a feeling of an early spring morning or summer day. My favorite kind of photos are the ones specializing in plants, animals, and landscapes. I like to capture Earth's majestic beauty. This photo was not taken by me, but it still is a wonderful, simple but powerful photo.

Very 1st Scratch

This is my very 1st image I made in photoshop for my Digital Media class. I sort of like it. It wasn't planned... is nothing in particular, just for fun.

Alphabet Soup

More Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup Again ("i")

The Other

Tracy is my other because although we are very similar of each other, we are also very different as well. We were brought up differently and in different surroundings.

More Alphabet Soup w/Plastic Wrap

Nature

All of the brush creates so much texture in this scene. The tree on the left-hand side of the photo is what the viewer sees first, then the eyes follow the tree up and towards the top-right most of the photo.
I love the scenery here. The way the photo was taken lets the viewer imagine where the trail will take him/her. Where does the trail take you? What is beyond the tree?

Raindrops and Railings

I like this image because it has depth in it. The viewer can see the railing all the way until it is out of view. The railing just keeps going and going and going. I also really like the droplets on the railing. They create texture. The light reflects off the droplets and help highlight the railing.

I also like the fact that the image is black and white rather than colored; the photo is more dramatic. It wouldn't have the same effect if it were colored.

Upside Down City

This is unique because the photographer used the water in the fish bowl and the glass of the fish bowl to create an illusion of an upside down city behind the bowl. As a viewer, I saw the relfection of the sunlight on the table underneath the fish bowl first, then I saw the upside city next. I find that the more unique or strange a photo is, the more it stands out. I like images that are unique, strange, or new. I want to do something like this. If you look at the image upside down and without the background of the city around the bowl so that the image is just the fish in its fish bowl, you see the fish "flying" upside down in the sky above a city. It looks really neat!

Psychodelic Alphabet Soup

Black and White Alphabet Soup

Frogs

I like this photo because the concept is so simple. My grandma, mom and I got our picture taken where I was in front of Mom and Mom was in front of Grandma. Of course we were sitting and posing for the photo, but patterns like these are unique for the viewer because patterns help the brain put images into an understanding order rather than a mess of chaos.

This photo is unique because it is a photo of four frogs in a row; it makes a pattern. The viewer sees the largest frog first and then his/her eyes follow the next frog and so on until the last frog, where most of its body is underwater. Another real cool thing is that because the frogs are in water, they create reflections in the water which helps create depth in the photo. I also like that the frogs are the focal point; they aren't blurred out of view but the background is becuase the background isn't important.

Spring Snakes

This is a photo my mom took in her backyard. Apparently, Mom has a family of little snakes in her yard. This is one of many in a series she took. The series started with only one snake stuck its head out of the whole, then two in the second picture, and then this picture. Mom told me that the snake on the top slithered out and down the hole and slithered in another hole behind the one showed here, and back into this one again. These snakes are loooonngg! I would also like to add that the hole these snakes are in is almost too small for my little pinky to fit inside.

I chose this picture because of the composition: the viewer sees the snakes first and then let their eyes wander throughout the rest of the photo where the patterns of the wood lead the viewers' eyes back to the snakes.

Rainbow at Waterfall

The way the photo was taken makes the waterfall appear really small. What caught my eye when I first saw this image was the white foam of the falls that lead into the bottom of the image where the rainbow ends. The rainbow is faint but obvious. It is in the foreground of the picture. After I found the rainbow, it stands out more than ever; I can't stop looking at it. I also like how every "ground" (background, foreground, etc) is distinct; not one is the real focal point.

Letter Scratch of Gardener's Behind

Peacock

This peacock is a very beautiful creature. The photographer captured it's beauty very well. The way the artist captured the tail feathers is genius. The body of the bird was subtracted from the image because it is not important. The importance is focused on the magnificant colors of the bird as well as the great, regal tail feathers he shows off with pride. He shows off his greenish-blue colors with a sense of smugness or superiority.

There is a sense of pattern in the way he shows off his stuff. His feathers are made up of lines and circles that create the background through sameness which creates a sense of order. The feathers lead to the head of the peacock. There, you find the arrogant peacock, trying to impress a female or scare away an enemy.

Star fish

What drew me to this photo was the light that is coming through the surface of the water. It is captivating. Photos like these make my desire to wander the earth in search for moments like these grow even stronger and more intense than before.

The first thing I noticed in this picture was the closest starfish, then the 2nd closest, and so on and so forth. The starfish leads the viewer's eyes to the background, where the blue is most obvious. Right above the blue is the surface of the water, where the starfishes are reflected, along with the reflection of the sunlight from the bottom of the sea floor. The angle of the photo works for this piece because the photographer captured the sea floor while also capturing the underside of the surface of the water.

Dock

The blue here is spectacular regardless of whether or not it has been tampered with in PhotoShop. Deep, light, muted blues make this photo stand out from most others. In the upper-right hand corner is the most saturated blue in the photo. The little lights on the dock take the focus off of the background and into the foreground. They draw attention to the dock and help take the eyes further and further into the background. The roof at the end of the dock points to the blue and purplish sky.

I wish I could stand where the photographer is standing and walk onto the dock and look out onto the water and up into the sky at the end of the dock. I am inspired to create a work of art such as this one.

The photographer could have just took a picture of the sky, but the photo would lack depth and uniquiness. The composition makes this piece what it is.

Forest

This photo takes me into the photographer's world. The photographer is, perhaps, in a trance. This scene is magical and mesmerizing. I want to jump into the piece and explore the photographer's world. I want to wander into the mist in the background. What is out there? As a photographer, I am inspired to explore the world... Ashland, and the surrounding area... and create a very similar photograph.

It makes me wonder where the photographer is and who inhabits the area... how were the tire/wheel marks made? When? Why? But most importantly, where do they lead?

The tree to the left is very strong, dark, and perhaps even, somewhat menacing. The trail seems innocent enough, but it leads into a cloud of mysterious mist. What is in there? Is the mist appearing or clearing? Back to the strong, menacing tree... start at the bottom left hand corner and your eyes follows the tree up then across the top, following the branches, over to the right side of the photo where the brush huddles together to protect the wildlife or, use your imagination and perhaps there is a hidden, very old, wise civilization, which takes your eyes to the trail where you follow it into the mist.