The Lone Rose
This image I took at the beach. I saw this rose just sitting on the rocks, and it was the only one there and I thought that it would be a good image that had a story behind it. I did use a few skills from Gimp, I used auto enhance, and then on Picasa I used the Lo mo effect
The Art of Faith
I took this image with my I-phone tilted upwards. It was backstage before a production of the play I was doing the stage managing and lighting for. I took it on a black and white setting, and in editing the image, made it a little bit darker. This ladder signifies the true art of Faith used in theatre. Before you go onstage you have Faith in your cast members to not let you make a fool out of yourself if you stumble on the lines. So you keep going, because you have Faith that it will go okay, and you won't fall down.
When I took this, I loved the way the light was hitting the bridge. It seemed to be hitting it as if the light was bouncing off of it into the river. I made it a Black and White image to focus more on the Light of the image and show how it illuminated even some of the darkest parts of this bridge.
Flames of the Past
With this image, I took it because of the fire. The Flames were finally starting to get to a point where they got high. In that fire you can burn anything, and bury it in the past. I edited it using a 60's filter that was in Picasa, and made the flame color more of a vibrant orange around the edges.
Old Friend
In Downtown Portland, I saw this group of old people, 3 were just talking and staring as this woman took a drink out of the fountain. I thought that this image has a meaning of Old Friends. Maybe they knew each other in high school and that was something the woman used to do in the hallways often and the other 3 would stand back and watch. I was far away so I zoomed in, and it gave it a grainy effect. I used the 1960's filter again, because I think it gives an emphasis that black and white just didn't do in my original image.
Pushing Forward
I was in the car and saw this guy running. His posture makes him look as if he really didn't want to keep going but his hands have this look that make him seem strong and ready to move forward. I took the picture in black and white, and I cropped the image so it focused more on the man on not as much on the area around him.
Irony in a Note
I purposely set this image up. I had the image of Taylor Swift and the song "The Way I Loved You" pinned onto my board already and I saw my guitar and decided to set it by the image and see if I could get a good shot. Most people know that Taylor Swift writes most of her own music, and so I think this picture shows a little bit of Irony by placing the guitar in front of this image. I changed the picture to black and white because it made it all mesh together.
Miles From Home
This moss covered beam was just sitting on the beach. I found it, and snapped the image. The coolest thing about this beam is that I had no idea where it came from. It could be from one of the hurricanes or Tsunamis that demolished all kinds of things in its path and somehow it ended up washing onto this beach. I felt like it was just speaking to me. I cropped the image down so it focused more on the Beam than on the sky and water behind it. I also used a filter called CinemaScope because I loved the way it colored the moss and sand.
Tiny Jobs
This bee was flying around all these flowers collecting the nectar. I took so many images and finally got this one that I feel really showed the power of a bee. They work and work to get the nectar that make us honey and pollinate the flowers that people love. It signifies even the tiniest creatures have jobs that they have to complete. I changed this image to black and white because I felt like it brought more of a focus to the bee and it brought out the speckles on the flowers. I also created a little bit of a blur around the edges to add more of a focus to the middle of the image.
Poems in the Sun
I took this at the beach during the sunset. I loved the way you could see the suns reflection on the water and all of the colors that were on the horizon. I feel like the sunset is a way that the sun and sky are able to communicate and this image really shows just how much it can say. It writes its own poems as the sun begins to set to the end where it is resting on the water, and says its final words for the day. I edited this by using the Lo mo-ish effect and the Boost that are on Picasa, and I left it that way because the vibrant colors added to the words the sky seemed to speak.
Anne Saint-Marie, 1958 
