My star book

The cover to my star book

My star book from above

Me and my sisters

2 places I love inside my house: The view from my deck and my bedroom.

2 of my favorite things: My dog and sushi.

Friends: Exchange friends and my chilean friends.

2 places important to me: Auburn Hotel, IN and my fathers coffee shop.

Henri Cartier Bresson

I really like how Henri Cartier Bresson captured this decisive moment. The bicyclist makes the photograph pretty unique and almost makes the whole thing come alive. The handrails of the stairs lead your eyes to the cyclist and it really intrigues me. There are also a lot of different shapes in this photo which is why this decisive moment captured by Bresson stuck out to me.

Photo by: Henri Cartier Bresson

Alfred Stieglitz

This photo fascinated me because of all of the water that's in the middle of the street. As seen in the photograph, the residents do not even seem to care about it for they are walking straight through it. I noticed that a woman in a long, white dress doesn't even mind it. I found this really interesting because I cannot think of one woman nowadays that would do the same as the woman captured in the photograph. I also love how the buildings look, and that Alfred was able to capture the typical mode of transportation at the time: the horse carriage.

Photo by: Alfred Stieglitz

Snapshot aesthetic

A snapshot aesthetic for me is capturing a moment of plain, everyday subject matter.

Self-Portraits

http://www.floraborsi.com/

Hungarian photographer and retoucher Flora Borsi has a knack for making creative (and viral) photomanipulations, from placing herself into historical photos.

For her latest project, titled “Animeyed,” Borsi created a series of striking self-portraits in which her right eye is “replaced” with an animal’s.

By: Flora Borsi

By: Flora Borsi

By: Flora Borsi

By: Flora Borsi

William Eugene Smith

Photo by- William Eugene Smith
I really like this photo. It makes me think about what the people living during this time period were going through. There is a lot going on in the photograph and it leaves me with a lot of questions, which intrigues me.

Can a single photo create change?

I believe that a single photo can effect how people see the world, which can ultimately create change. The photograph below was taken in Santiago, Chile. I lived in Chile for six months and the beautiful capital of this amazing country always seemed to be surrounded by smog. Smog is released into the air when fuels are burnt. When sunlight and its heat react with these atmospheric gases, smog is formed. With Santiago's average temperature of 69°F and almost 10 million people within the confines, smog is almost inevitable. Tourism is very popular in this city, and as the photo below depicts a couple taking a selfie hundreds of feet above the city, smog engulfs it. This problem, and photograph, could easily provoke people into changing their ways to make this city, and hundreds of others around the world, more inhabitable.