Showing

Having another showing at a popular restaurant--a black and white collection. Getting enlargements, cropping properly, and matching ink tones to images is exhausting. I am pretty dissatisfied with the prints hanging up. For some reason the printing company only printed some of the photos I submitted (and of course, the ones they accidentally left out were my favorite). I also had to design a business card (which was pretty fun) so hat customers interested in the prints could contact me. I'm really happy with their design. Pictures of showing will probably come in a week or so.

Old Photo Flashback

One of my oldest photos, but still one of my favorites. However, I can definitely see through my work how much I've grown as a photographer since then. I didn't even have an SLR at this point!





This one is old too--I like it, but it doesn't have much artistic style/vision.

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Saskia Photoshoot

Had a brief photoshoot with my friend's little sister, Saskia. She is extremely photogenic, but I think I could have gotten some better photos than I did. The second is the study and the third is a close crop of the one below.

Cambridge

Last summer, I attended a program for a month in Cambridge, England. Though the photography class was not very structured, I learned a lot by taking photos in my free time. The beauty of Cambridge inspired me, and seeing a hundred new faces sparked my imagination for new photos. During an interview with a lady from the town newspaper, she asked me what inspired me to take pictures of people. I said that faces inspire me--I don't view beauty generically--big eyes, pointed chins, and idiosyncrasies attract me to future models. I have no problem going up to people and asking them to model for me: in fact, that's what I did at camp during the first couple of days, to people I barely new. Camp was one of the biggest leaps in photography for me--I had free time for hours a day and was free to roam anywhere about Cambridge. My freedom explains the wide variety of photos: from the college gardens, to the street, to the ancient colleges, and to the art museums lining the wide avenues.

Kelly Photoshoot

I was hanging out with my friend Kelly and, even though I didn't really think I'd be taking photos, brought my camera along out of habit (I bring it basically everywhere that's safe and has another person to model for the photos). We were baking cookies and I looked out the window and saw this area of reeds around her house. I dropped the dough into the bowl and told her we had to take photos this instant, before the light faded. We took quite a few shots--I love her exotic eyes and facial structure in front of the camera. Unfortunately, her cat got a bit annoyed from being picked up, lol.

Digital Young Photographer of the Year 2007

Yay! I won the title of Digital Young Photographer of the Year 2007 for my age category (11-14). There were over 81,000 entries, and I was really thrilled to have won first! Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to contribute to the adult contest because people under 18 are disqualified. I won 600 dollars, was featured in a London exhibit (Malls Gallery, London), and was published in the Photographer of the Year 2007 portfolio, which comes with the March edition of Digital Camera magazine. It's one of my favorite photography publications, and it feels great when people email me on flickr and say they recognize the photo from the magazine.