This assignment was an interesting project because we were to photograph ‘place’. That can be interpreted in numerous ways. For this project I shot a number of pictures of the sunset in the countryside. This time of day has always been my favorite and the softness of the light and beauty of the landscape is one of my favorite pictures to shoot. It brings me an inner peace and as I explained to class a sense of freedom since I lived with someone who didn’t care for my sunset photos! By changing one of the photos to black and white it gives a different perspective of what we normally see at that time of day and it appears surreal without the color. Place to me in the sunset photo is tranquility. Another set of shots I took was at Eastwood Shopping Center after it had closed and on a night where most people were home in front of a roaring fire instead of driving around taking pictures. Without people in the shot it gives the picture a lonely feel while at the same time illustrating beauty of the quietness. It was a perspective that isn’t usually seen in that area. I appreciated the carnival feeling with the string of lights that flowed with the lamp posts going in an opposite direction. The picture of the bus shows an everyday item with a different view. The reflection of the lights and tree bouncing off the bus makes it look as if it is a whole picture rather than a reflection. The blue lighting softens the idea of the hard metal vehicle.
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