Innocence

I saw a beautiful movie last night, named Water. It is set in India in 1938 and is about the lives of widows, three of whom stand out the most: an eight year old, a young woman, and an older woman. The acting is astounding, the cinematography is gorgeous, and the editing ties it all together perfectly. The director (Deepa Mehta)'s vision is amazing and the ending is a beautiful blend of sorrow and hope.

The importance of water to the community in the film reminded me of my time in Vietnam. I also thought of this image, though the girl in the film and the girl in this image are of different nationalities, they are both just little girls and have so much life yet to live.

Masks Make Everything Creepy

A light graffiti photograph I took last summer.

Colorless Bloom

I took this photograph in high school when I was going through a "black and white flower" phase. I love to take photos of flowers as a stress reliever, but I rarely go back and look at the photographs because I find them boring (for me, flowers are a bit too perfect to be interesting). However, occasionally I go back and find a photo that intrigues me.

Friendly Neighbor

I took this in Georgetown, SC at Independent Sea Food. While my mom was inside, I stayed outside so that I could photograph all of the birds hoping to get lucky (on this particular day there were two pelicans and three herons). This one was the bravest, he actually tried to walk in the door of the place.

Light Graffiti

I took this photo for a project that I was involved in this fall. This was supposed to be the ending freeze frame to the video we were making about student life at Colorado College (to show the Board of Trustees). However, we never used the image. I still think it is a great photograph, there are 7 people in the image and we took it in the back of a theater. We used gels to cover flashlights to create the color and I put the shutter on a timer (the exposure is 30 seconds). Overall, it took us 14 shots to get this image (the first 4 we were deciding what to make).

This is one of my favorite collections of light graffiti: http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-light-graffiti-pictures