The photo shown is a photo of the model staring straight ahead while I am taking the photo. I used a digital camera to take this photo as well as a light set up. This is the photo that I am most proud of because it shows how you can still be standing and fighting even when everything else is dark around you.

I like to stand in a cerain place and wait ans se what happens in the space that I stay in. I like documenting specific areas or places and capturing the story of a place

To make this image i woke up early in the morning to take advantage of the soft early morning light. I walked up a hill and set up my tripod and camera. At first I did not notice the fog rolling in and was focused on something else. When I realized that the fog looked really cool i pointed my camera to it but the sun was getting higher by the minute so I had very little time. However I am happy how it came out. My favorite part of the image is definitely the light in the sky. The gradient of blues and pinks and soft greens in the land makes it a very pleasing image to look at. I am proud of this image because it was the first time that I tried out landscapes. In this image i wanted to capture the soft light of the morning but also try to push the boundaries of my skills.

This is a unique double-exposure photo. That captures one of San Fransico's most excellent staples. Growing up in SF, the Golden Gate Bridge meant so much to me, so I wanted to capture its unique beauty in a not basic or stereotypical way. I hope you guys enjoy the image!

Taking photography class has opened my eyes to a whole new subject. Whilst walking around a beach, I saw a dog splashing around in the water and I snapped a quick photo.

I loved how the rock looked and the water was a perfect background. I used a lower F/stop so the background wouldn't distract from the rock but add to it.

I love how eye-catching the photograph is, It has so much to look at. My photograph is a creative work of art that has two different outlooks on it. The way i created it was by just flipping the image and i started messing with the highlights, shadings and color. I love the original photo but this one looks so much better to me.

I took this photo in my garden where I remember playing pretend as a fairy when I was little. I wanted to capture some of the magic of imagining you are something so small that a flower towers over you. I wanted to capture that feeling of awe and insignificance that you feel when you are surrounded by very tall trees. I focused on the pink flowers because they look almost otherworldly, contributing to the feeling that you have entered the garden and been transported to a fantastical world of fairies and towering flowers.

Honestly, was walking through a Denmark airport, when I thought this skylight was interesting, so I snapped a photo. :)

When I was younger, I always wanted to be the first person to greet my parents whenever they got home from work. I figured that in order to do that, I had to wait on the balcony and watch the cars zoom by, on lookout for my parents’ car driving from the busy street and up towards the hill. As I’ve grown up, I haven't had as much time to be on the balcony and admire the cars. I took this photograph as an opportunity to be my younger self again and capture the busy streets.

This sign is located on the backroads of Novato. Whenever my family and I went on an outing, seeing this sing was a way to know you are close to being home. We would always stop at this sign to enjoy the view and pick the grain, throwing it at each other. This sign is more than a sign. It is a childhood memory that I will never forget.

My sister was about to leave for homecoming when I took this picture. The sun was setting which had this really nice soft lighting which made this picture more magical than I was expecting. This was my first portraiture assignment and a day earlier I had gone to the fair to practice my portrait compositions. This was one of the first photos where I really started to move the head in the upper third of the image and it executed really well.

I took this picture on Market Street in San Francisco—street photography in a metropolitan setting has always been my favorite way to shoot. The intricacies of the surroundings mixed with the hustle and bustle of human activity provides a complex environment with many interesting shots waiting to be taken. I love this picture because it perfectly sums up the urban street environment: capturing the unemotional face of a man on his way through the crowd, framed in between another man walking in front and yet another waiting to get on the bus. The color balance of the photo immediately jumps out as well, providing a compelling overall composition.

I took this picture for my first portraiture assignment in my photography class at the Civic Center Farmer's Market in Marin. I remember my hands shaking on the shutter, feeling like an impostor, a nervous high school student dressed up as a photographer. The mirth and warmth emanating from the band as they chatted and tuned their instruments was palpable. I made my move, walking up to the two leading ladies adjusting their microphones and asking if they minded a picture. "Oh, do we!" The women fell into pose immediately, contagious laughter floating through the air and lifting a weight from my shoulders. It doesn't take much to make someone's day. Whether or not they would remember me was irrelevant; I thought of those two kind strangers long after I took their picture. There are a multitude of reasons modern photographers choose to make black-and-white images, but for me, the decision was as simple as seeing that these women didn't need to be depicted in color for it to shine through anyway. I think there is something so beautiful in the simplicity of the interactions between friends, and so I called it "Amity" for how they shared it with me.

Out of the Boredom of The Pandemic

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This picture is of little bay waves hitting the sand and mostly rocks. I waited about 30 minutes in order for there to be big enough waves that caused the white splashes. Then with a long shutter speed photo and the right camera settings, it was transformed to a lingering wavy fog. I added my final touches through photoshop by lightening areas, putting an s-curve on the wave, and adding some saturation to the rocks.

This was an assigment in school about lighting and I decided to wait until night time to take a picture on my router because I thought about how cool and how sci-fi-like it looked in the dark. I put it up close, lined up the settings, and took the shot.

As a photographer, I'm always interested in making connections in the world around me. For this particular piece, I focused on the lines and movement of both compositions. It fascinates me how many similarities there are across the natural world and it's visually appealing to see them together. I chose to present these two images as a diptych because I wanted to inspire my viewers to challenge themselves to find similarities between seemingly very different objects.