Amanda in a Field

As you may have seen, there are a lot of photos of Amanda.  


This photo shoot was terrible.  She dragged me through fields and forests and twigs and weeds and bugs and bushes.  I got about thirteen bug bites.  I'm so ITCHY!

Christmas Party Before and During, also, Thanksgiving

These photos were actually taken on different days, but my sister said I could just say that it was the same day.

This is after Thanksgiving dinner.

My sister also said I could make fun of them all, but I can't think of any good quips.

Photographer Review: stop and stare

This week, actually this morning, I happened upon a small photography blog.  I saw a couple of the first few photos, and wasn't all impressed.  Then I saw one, and I realized it was a good photo.  So I figured I might as well look around on the other posts and see if there are any more, and I found a whole bunch of good photos.  Some of the pictures up aren't that great; they're headed for greatness, but they just didn't quite make it there.  Others I just didn't like at all.  So, here is the photo that caught my eye in the first place, and why it's good.

I like this one because of a pretty basic principle.  Lines.  Look, straight lines are everywhere in this photo.  The lines lead your eye all over the photo, but there's still an obvious subject.  The reason it isn't a great photo to me is because it doesn't make me feel anything.  I don't hear it saying anything.  Still, a good photo.


Next.

This water pot sequence is wonderful.  Its subject is strong and 'there.'  You get a feeling of the setting, in a kitchen, it's cold and dark in the morning.  The viewer can see the blur in the foreground, meaning that the photographer set his camera on a table, but I think it adds to the photo.  It's good.

This one I like because it's mysterious and sinister.  It looks like two savages are conferring with each other about their plans for the tasty-looking traitor.  Silhouettes (almost) always make good subjects.

This one could be just another amateur photo of a household item, but something draws it above that.  Whether it's the lighting, the slight vignette, or the knowing and sorrowful look of the monkey, (to me he looks like a lower god who knows the human race will be destroyed in days, but he will survive, and there's nothing he can do to help) I don't know, but it's something.

I like this one.  Something about it reminds me of Northern California, at my great-uncles place, and then something makes me think that it's set in Scotland.  I love the man's pose, so frozen, but you know that he's moving.  And with the arm covering his face, it gives the man some kind of anonymity, like he could be your uncle, or your cousin, or your brother-in-law.  I like that the photographer made a sort of collage out of this, with the wood pictures at the bottom.  The wood pieces probably wouldn't have been great on their own, but here they add a sort of ending. Like, here the man is chopping, now here are the results of his efforts.


If you would like to explore for other pictures from this photographer, here is the website: http://kurstenbracchi.tumblr.com/

More Amanda.

This time we're downtown.  These photos, we took for my photography final.

For these first few, I had to combine different photos from this set to create a "clone effect."

She really liked those red converse.

Panda Manda and Bass Head

These following three photos are the reason for this blog.  My sister needed a photo for blog contribution and chose the one below.  Then the 'main blogger' said that all the blog contributors should have pictures in the theme of Amanda's and called upon me for the job.  So Amanda suggested I make a photography blog so she could link to it and give me credit for the photo.  So I did.

This one Amanda had me do for fun, and now it's her blog contributor photo.

This is the 'main blogger's' photo.  He chose tigers.

This is another contributor.  His theme was 'Moose.'  So of course I slipped in some Bullwinkles.

Now, a while ago, Amanda had me remake a certain photo.  Here it is.

This one is a remake of the photo below.

Here is the afore-mentioned photo.  It's the Bassnectar photo, for those of you who don't know.

Amanda at Riverstone

And other places too.  Mostly Riverstone, I think.

Amanda says this one looks like it would be in a catalog or magazine.

I edited out so much goose poo.  It was everwhere.

It was super hard to edit reflections out of the glasses.

A mean old couple yelled to us that the geese would attack us.  They hoped that the geese would.

Well, that's it.  At least for this round.

Introduction

Hello.  So, my sister told me I should make a photography blog or something so that people could link to it and I'd get credit for my works.  So I'm making one.  On this blog, you will find pictures that I've taken, pictures that I've edited, and pictures that I've found.  That last one was my idea.  I think that sometimes I'll post pictures that I've found, that have fascinated me for some reason, or that are genuinely good photos, purely for commenting purposes only.  So, this post is my mission statement for this blog.