Photos from Graduation

Week 8: Desert Botanical Garden

Today I went to the Desert Botanical Garden with my family.  There are so many beautiful opportunites for great photography there.

Cactus flower. I love the soft yellow color of it, and how dramatic the contrast is between the soft flower and the prickles of the cactus spines.

Desert chipmonk?? He was resting in the shade and let me get close enough to take decent pictures of him.  The shade does make it a little hard to notice him though.

Zebra butterfly from the butterfly exhibit. Beautiful.

Week Seven: Kids

Recently, I took some pictures of my niece and nephew, Jaymee and Jakub.  They are adorable, and when they are okay with a camera being pointed at them, I think they are very photogenic and cute to look at.

I like this photo because of how everything look colorwise.  Her shirt goes with the green tree and green grass.  However, she was biking faster than I expected, so I didn't do a good job at making it rule of thirds or anything like that. Nontheless, a cute photo.

My cat. He provides amusement for me and he's adorable, so he is often the subject of my fun photos.

Nap time!

Jakub, for once sitting still.

Diversity

I enjoyed finding diversity by the means of color.  I found objects that were the same but that showed diversity by being in all different colors.

Easter Eggs

Markers

And nail polish [:

Color

For my color shoot, I decided to do the color blue.  I had baked some cupcakes and tried my hand at decorating them (it was my first time). I used a blue frosting to decorate so I could use them for my blue photo shoot.
For the second photo, I found some blue flowers in my garden and decided to photograph them.  I love the way that the depth of field is obvious with the first flower being clear and the ones behind it being blurry.

Week Six: Volleyball

Earlier this week, I went to the boys varsity volleyball game.  I did this for student life, but decided to display some of the pictures I'm not turning in for that for my blog.  Although I hate gym pictures because the lighting makes everything look bad in my opinion, these ones turned out alright.

Week Five: Prom!

So I'm a little late with my post but I wanted to post a few prom picture for my blog post this week!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the first picture of Chris's flower that I got him.  I love the contrast of the flower to his tux.  The second picture was just a fun one that I took of Chris, and although he is kind of dark in it, I actually liked the way it turned out with the shadows on his face.  The third picture is my cat, Binx.  He was hanging out with us when we were taking prom pictures, and he's too cute to not take pictures of :)