Artist Statements
The first row are a few images of a river feeding into a lake in Traverse city. When we were driving here, we saw the river contained a number tree stumps on the riverbed, which I wanted to shoot. I wanted to find an area of the river in which it was just completely saturated with these dead stumps. Unluckily, when we got to our location, they were rather sparse, and the areas which had more abundance weren't in areas I was close enough to in order to be allowed to go to. I managed to find a few, however, and I'm happy with the result, depicting lone stumps, separated from the others on the shoreline.
The second row is made up of images of the area by or of the Huron river. Luckily, I managed to take a few pictures of the sunset. While it was a bit difficult to find shots without much human structure, I still got some images which I'm really happy with. I was trying to take images I could look back upon, when I get nostalgia for my time spent down there. Something I'm not sure I like about taking images of sunsets, however, is that a lot of the middle ground tends to become backlit, which I'm not a fan of.
The third row is made up of images I took during my vacation to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. I was trying to capture the vastness and scale I saw in the mountains, of which I saw a huge amount of; I loved how, even past the last piece of green, I could still see the grey outline of more in the distance. The angles I shot the mountains from, also gave the images a great sense of balance, and a good composition. I'm very happy with them.
The fourth row is made up of images of a tree I found in Traverse city which had turned into a beautiful shade of Gold, which happens to be my favorite color. In the second image, I was trying to contrast the tree with the others to make it seem special, but I really like the first image, how the golden sun is peeking through the golden leaves. It was a bit challenging to capture that shot, as the wind would blow around the leaves and make it difficult to photography any specific thing through them.
The last row is made up of images of a lake in traverse city. I was trying to capture images of the solitary structures within the lake. It was challenging trying to find angles and objects which didn't require a commercial building or bridge or dock to be in the shot, but in the end, I was able to find a few. Unfortunately, the shoreline in the second images are backlit, which make it difficult to see the subject I was trying to photograph, being the dying trees in the middle of the lake.
The first row are a few images of a river feeding into a lake in Traverse city. When we were driving here, we saw the river contained a number tree stumps on the riverbed, which I wanted to shoot. I wanted to find an area of the river in which it was just completely saturated with these dead stumps. Unluckily, when we got to our location, they were rather sparse, and the areas which had more abundance weren't in areas I was close enough to in order to be allowed to go to. I managed to find a few, however, and I'm happy with the result, depicting lone stumps, separated from the others on the shoreline.
The second row is made up of images of the area by or of the Huron river. Luckily, I managed to take a few pictures of the sunset. While it was a bit difficult to find shots without much human structure, I still got some images which I'm really happy with. I was trying to take images I could look back upon, when I get nostalgia for my time spent down there. Something I'm not sure I like about taking images of sunsets, however, is that a lot of the middle ground tends to become backlit, which I'm not a fan of.
The third row is made up of images I took during my vacation to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. I was trying to capture the vastness and scale I saw in the mountains, of which I saw a huge amount of; I loved how, even past the last piece of green, I could still see the grey outline of more in the distance. The angles I shot the mountains from, also gave the images a great sense of balance, and a good composition. I'm very happy with them.
The fourth row is made up of images of a tree I found in Traverse city which had turned into a beautiful shade of Gold, which happens to be my favorite color. In the second image, I was trying to contrast the tree with the others to make it seem special, but I really like the first image, how the golden sun is peeking through the golden leaves. It was a bit challenging to capture that shot, as the wind would blow around the leaves and make it difficult to photography any specific thing through them.
The last row is made up of images of a lake in traverse city. I was trying to capture images of the solitary structures within the lake. It was challenging trying to find angles and objects which didn't require a commercial building or bridge or dock to be in the shot, but in the end, I was able to find a few. Unfortunately, the shoreline in the second images are backlit, which make it difficult to see the subject I was trying to photograph, being the dying trees in the middle of the lake.