Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith is a photographer I learned of during the first quarter of this academic year. His work is amazing. He has great composition, and every photo has almost a feel of elegance. A lot of them are very creative, and have an old fashioned feeling to them. They appear very simple with a very unique meaning. He has probably become one of my favorite photographers.

New Inspirations

While planning my final project for this quarter I discovered some new photographers. This picture is from Galen & Barbara Rowell. This picture was taken in Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River. These are the Victoria Falls during sunrise.

They have a great talent at catching the different colors in nature. The photos really caught my attention because these are the types of photos I can see myself taking later on. I love nature photography as well as using natural light to an advantage.

Favored

This photo was taken by Steven McCurry and later published to the cover of National Geographic (issue June of 1985). He took this photo while traveling through the Nasir Bagh refugee camp. It later became a symbol of the Afgan conflict. They were unaware of her name for 17 years (12 years old when the photo was taken). They later discovered her name was Sharbat Gula.

I really admire McCurry's photojournalistic abilities. His photos always tell a story. He has an amazing ability to capture the struggle and joy going on throughout a country. McCurry is one of my favorite photographers due to his excellent use of color. I myself am a huge fan of incorporating color creatively throughout my photos so he caught my eye right away.

Self Portrait

This week in my Photo Arts class we had to shoot some type of self portrait of ourselves. If you've met me at one point of another you've probably seen me walk on my toes. I was born with short achilles tendons. Everyone will always mention it to me sooner or later, and I don't mind if you ask me about it. I could undergo surgery to fix the problem, however it's something thats never really bothered me. I think it sets me apart from other people. Something I have for myself. So I decided to illustrate it for my self portrait, because I highly doubt others have the exact same condition as me. It makes me, me!

Spring Break Encounter

Over Spring Break my parents and I made a visit to Ventura Beach. My plan was to get pictures of the sunset before we went to dinner. While trekking through the rock infested beach my mom found this lovely rock. It surprisingly weighed a ton, so taking it home was not an option.

Introduction

To start off in the blogging world I figured I'd go with an old photo. This photo was taken almost one year ago (3/17/09) in my backyard. This is my pup Kota. She would be one of my favorite subjects to shoot, but getting her to sit still for more than two seconds is impossible.