Aeros Game

I got the chance to shoot an event at Canal Park in Akron, where 23 underprivileged students from Lebron James' old grade school got to watch a game from the party loge. They were a great group of kids - really appreciative and respectful, not to mention they got really into the game. I hope I get the chance to shoot them again.

A few more.

Here's a few more. I've been trying not only to bring my camera most places I go, but to see genuine photo opportunities. Picking up on things I wouldn't have normally noticed.

I thought this was an interesting snap, and I like that the arms on the wheel give it some context, but I think the hotspot in the corner is a little distracting.



This is an almost for me - if I had pushed it, I think I could have gotten something a lot more effective out of it.

Dinner

I wish I could say I've been looking for specific things in my work, but it's more that I see patterns in what I'm searching for afterwards, when I find common threads. So I guess I've been looking for meaning in gesture, exploring the feeling rather than what's just on the surface. I want to be as unliteral as possible, because I feel like a lot of my work for school is really literal and straightforward, and hopefully before the summer's over I can influence my mindset in "when it really counts" mode.

Initial stuff.

Just to put this out there, I'm no novice blogger. I've had (another) one for quite awhile. Pretentiousness aside, this will still be clumsily done, because I'm still rather clumsy at the thing it's dealing with - photography. I've learned a lot in the past year, during my time as a freshman photojournalism student at Ohio University - but one of the most important things I've learned is that I know far less than I thought I did.

So, this will be here to annoy the heck out of me. To publish photos when I like them, when I am proud, but also when I am not feeling creative, when I feel my work is not at its best, when I need to push myself but all I want to do is hurl my camera into something semi-soft (hey, it's still worth more than that, regardless). Because every time I get knocked down, or frustrated - I want to have a record to look back on. To see how I've improved. And to keep me going. Because not being at school, and working that summer job to pay the bills makes me want to know I'll be good at doing a job that I will love so much more than waiting tables, even if they paid me twice as much.



Here's one I liked from my brother's graduation.