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What!? I thought I had lost my ability to log into here. In 2005, I had decided to go to Brooks Insitute of Photography in Santa Barbara California. I was hopeful and full of dreams of becoming a famous photographer. (The admissions officers knew this, and they preyed upon students like me) in 2006 I realized how badly I was getting into debt, and then my mother developed blood clots in her lungs and I decided to go back home to Washington State. In between 2006-and 2010 a lot of life circumstances got in my way. I was determined though to one day have my own photography studio. In 2010 I decided to start a photography business. Things did not pan out the way I had hoped because I knew so little about how to run a business. I decided to go back to school to learn about business. Since then I have gotten an Applied Science in Business Administration and an Applied Science in Accounting. Now 11 years later I find myself starting a photography business again, only this time I'm much wiser from having gone through some hard earned leasons. So now 11 years later I would like to share some more recent photos.

The Countryside

Before and After CS4

For the love of dog!

Images

IMAGE
noun, verb, -aged, -ag·ing. –noun

1.     a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.

2.    an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface.

3.     a mental representation; idea; conception.

I watched a surreal movie this afternoon, that was fragmented and a bit difficult to understand. More than likely I'll watch it again to see if I can understand it better. But something about this particular movie made me think that life really is a canvas with which we paint our life stories. Or rather a series of canvas's that tell our story. Our memories, the ones that impact us the most are the one's that are overflowing with emotions.

One of my jobs as a photographer is to evoke emotions through the use of images. I'm toying with the idea of using my memories as vague references to recreate events that have had a strong emotional impact on my life. The photos would have to be vague and somewhat surreal to capture the emotion rather than just the people or objects in my photos. I am going to start thinking about how I can go about capturing certain ideas. Hopefully I'll be able to create the images I have floating around in my head.

The fan isn't cutting it, so I'm wistfully thinking about winter

Watching Over The City

















Icicle Dream

Summer

I used this tutorial on the photos below (no other editing)

The color correction tutorial I used

UNEDITED

EDITED

Photoshop, I luv it!

Photo BEFORE Photoshop

Photo AFTER Photoshop

Which one do you like better??

Oldies but goodies...