Searching for Shots: April 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Comfort Food

Dim Sum has always been my favorite food. My parents and I decided to cook some up and it was absolutely amazing. A ray of light in times like these. Taken on Sunday, 4/26/2020

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Sunsoaked

In my time in quarantine, I've been noticing the sunlight in my house around the time of sunset more and I've been able to take very nice photos such as this. Taken on Saturday, 4/18/2020

Monday, April 20, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

To me, I feel like a large part of a great black and white photo is the simplicity of the concept and the thought that it provokes. The following five photos were taken with these two ideas in mind. Enjoy.

Taken on Monday, 4/13/2020

Taken on Saturday, 4/11/2020

Taken on Tuesday 4/7/2020

Taken on Saturday, 4/11/2020

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Blacker and Whiter

For today's in-class assignment, we had to take a photo that we think would look good in black and white before placing any filters on it. I took the following picture of my sink because I thought that the light and the shadow would look really good in black and white. After toying with the contrast and brightness a bit I made the final product and it turned out very well. Both photos were taken on Tuesday, 4/7/2020. Enjoy.

Sunday, April 5, 2020

The Trip of a Lifetime

I wanted to take this time to retreat from the craziness of quarantine and back to one of the best trips of my life that I experienced this past spring break. I never thought that I would be active with Habitat for Humanity. I always heard about the organization's mission and truly admired it; I, however, never found myself in the position to be involved with them. On a spur of the moment decision, I decided to go on a spring break trip to San Diego, California and to say that I'm glad I did would be an understatement. For class, we were tasked to make a photo documentary of our separate spring breaks. I enjoyed this project a lot (as did my friends on the trip) and even used it to make a video for our reunion (over Zoom of course). Interestingly enough, two days after we left to go back home - all of the San Diego HFH operations were suspended so we were grateful to have caught it at just the right moment. The two photos I consciously planned were the first and final photo, symbolizing how I came into the trip not knowing many of the people around me and I left the trip with 17 new friends. Enjoy.