As the first week of the spring semester ends I've finally accomplished something I've wanted to do all break, blog. It continues to amaze me how fast the days go, causing me to cling to the moments I love and hopeful to see the hard ones pass. While preparing for the next semester, I've found myself reflecting on the fall semester. Mostly on my photography course, because Lord knows I don't want to be reminded how much time I spent studying things I'll probably never use. I was challenged this semester by my photography teacher. I've never met someone who could one week leave me walking out of class completely inspired, and the next week totally annoyed. Its definitely a gift he had. But he pushed me, and he saw things and felt things from my photographs that no ones ever described to me before. I've always wanted my photographs to have an influence on my audience. Finding someone that after looking at one of my images could put into words almost exactly what was going through my head when I made it, was extremely new to me. It was scary, and encouraging at the same time. The emotion in a photograph is one of the most important things to me. I want people to feel, whatever it might be, what I was feeling when I pushed my shutter and captured a moment in time. A lot of this semester was experimenting with color, and how color works to portray emotion. I know I'm no where close to fully understanding it or mastering it, but its a journey I'm on of looking at color in a whole new way.
Out of all the assignments that I did these ended up being my best images. They don't all work together as a body, because each assignment was so different. Its hard making a portfolio that flows well out of three months of work. Im happy with my end result, while being provoked and inspired to continue on the journey of becoming a better artist.
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