But first.... let me take a selfie.

Its hard putting yourself into photographs when you can put your actual self in it. It was a struggle for me to just think about what pictures I wanted to take, because you have to ask yourself “who am I?” It’s also difficult to put yourself into objects. Thinking about what makes me, me, its hard! However once I started taking pictures, I couldn’t stop. I get very passionate and I am passionate about certain things, so those were no brainers. I also tried taking my photos more artistically. In class just learning some simple tricks to do with my angles made a huge difference. For example the picture of the baseball I took. I could have easily just taken it resting on my dresser, and boom, a boring picture. But I took it outside, on the ground. I got low and counted in the rule of thirds, and I have a really cook picture of a baseball!

            My artistic direction isn’t anything too artsy. I’m not the crafty, or visual type whatsoever. I originally wanted to do a dartboard of photographs but I was very weary. I didn’t know how I felt about bringing sharp objects and having my fellow students throw them at a wall. So I went with a rather simple approach, my initials. The putting together of the project became fun. I had to look at it like Tetris and put the pictures together just right and cut them in a certain way to make them all fit.