So this is a picture my friend took of her dog Bear. I really like how she managed to blur out most of the picture except for the edges and how his collar is still blue. She's really into photography and I really like what she's done with this.

Here's a picture I took while at a lake. I don't remember which one. Basically I just messed around with it and tried different things and I really liked this set up with the sky and water still blue and everything else black and white. I thought it added a nice touch.

Remembering D-Day

Today I was browsing through the BBC website just trying to keep in touch with current events and I stumbled across this picture. It was part of gallery put together to remember the 65th Anniversary of D-Day. There were other pictures showing several world leaders and veterans but something about this picture caught my attention more so than the others. I think that the way the person is in focus and the tombstones lined behind her are not. Also the way the flag is blowing and how it lines up perfectly with one of the markers. Overall I just get this very patriotic yet somber attitude from it and I think it really captures what the moment is about.

So for my mom's birthday, my sister and I had absolutely no clue what to get her. Eventually we decided that since she really didn't have enough pictures of us plastered everywhere that giving her a couple portraits would be nice. Out of the million we had taken this is by far my favorite. It was taken on the UC Davis campus by the Arboretum. It's a really similar to Lithia Park and the whole paths on either side of the little stream set up. Anyways, the setting was perfect and I really like how we look extremely intense but really we were just trying to stay dry. It started pouring the minute we decided to take photos.

Movie Poster

It took me a while to come up with movie to use for my poster and I was seriously having some trouble choosing one surprisingly. Until I watched this one and then the rest is history as they say.

Greatest Players

This is a collage of all my favorite keepers. They are the best... no question about it.

Perfect Day

Being an avid snowboarder myself, when I saw this picture all I could think of was perfect. A perfect day, a perfect slope and just how peaceful everything looks. The way the snowboarder just seems to fit in with his surroundings just adds to the smooth and simple setting. The sun sitting just above the slope also adds this majestic aura while at the same time illuminated the slope's horizon so that your eye is instantly drawn to the figure.

This is a design I found online. The colors were not very exciting so I thought I would just spice it up a bit.

Hue and Saturation

I just took one of my Alphabet Soup photos and just changed the Hue and Saturation.

Letters

O

L

F

X

Y

More letter fun. This time its not so random though.

Just having fun with Letters. Don't really know if anything has a meaning. It's all just extremely random.

I really like this picture mainly because of the its simplicity. The solitary figure sitting at the end of a bench strikes a very serene yet forlorn image. The figure's posture also gives off this feeling of sadness by the way he is slouched against the back of the bench as if tired or even defeated. The use of just black and white helps to reinforce these feelings and thought as well.
Another thing I find that really makes this picture so intriguing is the camera angle and the way that the bars of the bench draw your eye to that figure. By tilting the camera so that it is not just a straight shot of the person definitely adds to the mood of the piece. Also by not filling the background with clutter, the artist is able to portray his message more clearly and allows us as an audience to interpret his work more precisely and connect with it on a more personal level.

This is based off of the various little drawings I have done in the margin of some of my class notes.  I've always drawn it with one color though so to add different colors and to liquify it completely changed the way it would originally look but obviously for the better.

The First of Many

So this is officially my first blog post ever and I'm sure that there will definitely be many more to follow.  I've always been wary of the way information can be somewhat carelessly displayed over the internet so that has always been the main reason behind me being reluctant to join the blogging bandwagon. Guess it was only a matter of time before I did and I hope you guys enjoy what I put up.