I saw a man doing this

"i saw a man doing this, i saw him hanging red leaves to a dead tree. but i'm not sure he was a real man, he seemed a shadow, a really strange creature. i saw a man doing this, i saw him making seasons change."

Never-Ending Travel

This picture goes really nicely with the light assignment as well. I think it's interesting how outside is more lit up than she is. Her face is shrouded in mystery, just like her future. It's not only an intriguing picture on its own, but I found what the artist wrote about it to be more important than the picture itself.
"what's a never-ending travel? simply our life. a travel to find the right place, the right persons, the right emotions, to see our dreams realized. because, without dreams, what kind of life you can have?"
That really hit me. Mostly because I'm a teenager, but partially because I'm sort of strange, I have trouble figuring out where I fit in life, where I'm going to fit, what I'm going to do and where I'm going to go and who I'm going to be. Looking at the picture makes a lot more sense after you read what the photographer wrote.

More Lise Sarfati

This is MY FAVORITE image by her. It goes well with the light assignment that we have, but also it reminds me of myself. I walk up my secret hill and I sit in the grass and I lay under the trees and I look at the bugs and the birds and I listen to the rustling of leaves. While not everybody sees a girl doing that in this picture, that's what I see because it relates to me so deeply. I think this picture shows that everybody needs a place where they can go to just be alone and think about life, and talk to the plants and the animals. Mostly to just be. In the image, I really like the colors, the greens are so deep! And the lighting is so interesting, I wonder if this girl is in a sort of rainforest-type enclosure where you can only see the sky from in between patches of trees.

This picture jumped out to me as interesting mostly because of the girl's awkward position. Also, the background color and all of the strange objects on the right side. Her arm being up sort of balances out the empty left side of an image. Now THAT'S what I call figure/ground relationship!

Lise Sarfati

I'm not one that calls Magnum Photos the epitome of photography central (not that I have anything against itself or its photographers), but I went to take a look today so I wouldn't just have unknown "INDIE" (ha, Mr. Slade!) photographers on my page. I want to show diversity in what I can appreciate, photographically. So when I found Lise Sarfati on Magnum, I was so happy! The first thing I noticed was her collection of houses or shacks. They're all so plain, so almost boring. One of them in a collection, I think, would look just plain dumb. But the fact that she has so many of them, it tells a story.
I began to wonder, What happened in these old homes? Are they uninhabited or does a family of six live there? What happened here?
That is why I'm intrugued, not because they're compositionally good (which I think they are) but rather because they tell a story. And the story is different depending on who looks at it. Everybody sees something different in these images.

Chimera, Cigarette Smoker, Frank Sinatra

More DeviantArt work that I found. This is a user named riotbubbles. It's a little different from what I normally like...hahahahahaha. JAYKAY. I really like the lighting in this, the background gets darker and darker as it approaches her. But her face is lit. I don't know how to desribe this picture. But, I find it really pleasing to the eye.

This picture is so light, and I love how it is an exact half-slice of her face. I'm not sure if the fact that her eyes are closed mean that she's ashamed, or is just so careless about it. I like to think the latter, she even seems a little amazed by the cigarette. Sorry, I have so many pictures of smokers. I just think they look so classy.

The darkness all around these strangers adds such a mystery, but they aren't scared, the image isn't scary. They seem so sure of it.

Assignment 4 - On Your Belly

I had a hard time taking a lot of pictures for this assignment. Some were easy, but after a while it felt a little bit monotonous, taking so many pictures, and I was lacking willing models, since all my friends hate me. ANYWAYS, I really like the picture I took of Sara between the two buildings. I tried to capture it so that it looked like she was looking over one of the buildings. I loved that playing with height because it's so cool, dude! Yeahhhhhhh, that's my story. And these are my pictures. Enjoy.

Assignment 4 - On Your Belly