The quest to figure out my photography style continues! I definitely went with less than my usual amount of saturation in this batch and also tried shooting a lot more portrait/human subjects. I think next month I'm going to make composition my focus 'cause I've been pretty crappy with that lately...

And when it comes to photo editing...well...I've been having fun with the ASSthetics project my friends and I have created haha

Only halfway through March, but I've gotten a lot more practice with the DSLR. I know I said I wanted to try and steer clear of overly saturated images, and yet...

All of these photos are from my recent trip to Barbados, which you can read about here. I just wanted a space to save these images, so without any further ado...

Like every other basic-white-girl with an Instagram, I like taking photos. I'm bad at the hashtags part, but catch me outside scaling a tree for the perfect shot. In high school, I made all my friends model for my ~*~artsy~*~ photos that were inevitably murdered by an over-dependence on filters and stickers. I got a few decent shots along the way, my favorites coming from my mother's old film camera. Around college I dropped the hobby, only trying for those gorgeous photos when I went to New Zealand. Actually, what with New Zealand, California, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, 2015 had been a good year in photos. I experimented with my basic digital camera and smart-phone until I had enough pictures of mountains and trees and far-off cities to treat my wanderlust the following semester. 

It'd been a while since I've picked up a camera even to photograph things for myself. I've got a new DSLR though--my first--and discovering photography as a means of expression has been a lot of fun so far. In both traditional and digital painting I enjoy playing with colors; this preference of mine definitely transferred into my picture-taking, as you can see above. I know that in the past I tried to make my photos' colors as vibrant as possible, and I think a challenge for my photography is to not rely so much on stark contrast the way I do for my paintings.

Anyway, I'll let the rambling stop short.

​Here are a few photos I've taken just as practice. I don't have any stunning cliff-sides or mountain peaks to document, but I guess these are a bit more my everyday life...