Some of these photos have a bad outlook on life. By that I mean their perspective is all wrong.

 With two eyes, and a complicated computer we call a 'brain', we see in three dimensions. However, a camera is but one eye, and thus converts all incoming light into a two-dimensional rendering of a three-dimensional object. This being said, Our minds are so intuitive that most of the time we can do a little head-math and decipher three dimensions from the picture. But even so, when exposed to an extreme example, it can be quite shocking.  When something is positioned with few enough depth reference points that even our computer has a hard time figuring out exactly what it is we're looking at. This picture 'Skytops' it is difficult to tell just how tall the lamp is, or how low the sky is. The two look adjacent.

 In 'Honda M.D.' it is fairly easy to see the trick here: "The car is wearing a surgical mask"

Likewise, perspective is being exploited and it appears as if 'My Other Car is a Jet Fighter'

Angles carry similar perspective-altering properties. In case you've never seen a chicken in real life (I pity you) they are not the most intimidating of creatures, nor do they have imposing size as this image would suggest. However, given the low angle, the close proximity and the distant background, the 'Assertive Chicken' is exaggerated.

Framed, with concrete frames. I couldn't pass this beautiful redundancy up. The subject is bordered by thirds and thus is given the spotlight. 'Frame-Frames' makes the subject the exclusive object of our focus.

Until next time.

Some of these photos have distractions in them, I've tried to capture these distractions and compare them to an image without the distraction.

 This picture is not particularly cluttered, as a matter of fact, the background adds dimension to the image. However, sometimes as artists, when attempting to emphasize a particular trait or phenomenon it is necessary to cut out everything but what is absolutely necessary.

Isolation is a useful tool for concentration. 'Meditation' has a couple meanings for me; one is deep concentration on a particular task, it can also mean not thinking, or cleansing your mind of thought. In either case the same purpose is achieved, you are focused on one particular goal or object. Taking in an object is in it's entirety (or its absence).

We can look at this image and see the bag and the gloves atop it, clearly the subject of the picture. But the subject is cluttered, obscured because of the objects behind it. These other objects have a similar theme; they are all mechanical, industrial and practical. But this makes the hanging bag seem out of place, the theme seems to be shifted away from the subject. Unnecessary distractions, though adding depth, are detrimental to a simple narrative.

Until next time.

These photos don't really make much sense, only I know what the object really looks like, because only I can see what is off screen.

Who can tell what this is a picture of? By the given image there is very little to use for an educated guess. Evidently it is exposed to the elements, some sort of plant matter gives that away. The concentric circles are obviously man made, no natural phenomenon produces grooves that symmetrical. Yet the tops of the ridges are clean, indicating that something regularly rests atop it and leaves erratic scratches along the surface occasionally. That is where the data stops, and only assumption remains. What you cannot see, is the rope that protrudes from the center of the circular seat which the grooves are a part of. The object that sits atop it, leaving scratches across its surface, are young (and old, I'll admit) people who wish to experience the way the forces of gravity affect a 'Pendulum'. 

Life is so much smaller than we can possibly comprehend. 'Minimum Distance and Maximum Clarity', this is a bit of concrete, with a little pebble covered in moss tiny enough that to the passersby, it merely looks like a green rock. As humans, we rarely associate ourselves with things much smaller than what our eyes can easily see, if it gets much smaller than that it simply doesn't make enough of a difference to matter. This 'pebble' as I call it was probably a quarter of your pinky-fingernail, really not that small to be honest, because a red blood cell is about 8 micrometers, or 0.0008cm. So small that it may as well not even exist... right? 

This is the 'Mud-Mat' that I walk over every day to get into the office for school. it is commonplace for me, I barely even notice its existence. But what would be the repercussion of removing it? Dirty floor, dirty shoes, not much really. What would be the repercussion of removing something equally commonplace, but far more important, lets say... my heart. It beats around 1.1 times per second, and it has all my life, it weighs around 0.625% of my body mass, so really its not that big. Why is my heart so special if I never even notice it? 

The Earth's mass is 5.9736 x 10^24kg, I won't convert that number from scientific notation for the sake of brevity, nor will I add the estimated mass of the galaxy in comparison to that of our tiny planet. Suffice it to say our earth is many times smaller in comparison to the galaxy than a single heart cell is to our body. Our human minds tend to ignore things too small to make much difference, yet all things are composed of even smaller things, and without those smaller composite parts no matter how large something is, it will break down and collapse. In the end, its is only the small things that matter, things 

so small they are taken for granted are all there is, and each one has a particular role.

Until next time.

 These photos are really wet, and after walking around in the rain for about 3 hours looking for them, I am too.

This picture, I dubbed 'Waitin' in the Rain' just about sums itself up. Sweatshirt, rain-jacket AND umbrella. When waiting outside in Washington, one does not simply rely on one of these. Mechanically speaking, this image uses the rock wall as a curved leading line to lead to the subject matter. Unfortunately, I was not able to place the subject matter on any of the thirds, as it would ruin the leading lines.

The human mind is incredible. Even after imposing a wrought iron bench in the field of view, you can still connect the dots and see the picture beyond the picture. However, the self-centered bench provides detail that we might be unable to see otherwise: the hanging water droplets. Combined with the blanketing, gray sky we can connect additional dots and see that it is no longer freezing temperature, another sign that winter and spring are locked in inevitable combat. 'Super-Imposition' would have felt very unbalanced, however, the overly-confident bench provides symmetrically shaped apertures through which we see the picture. This gives the feeling of an equally balanced image.

There is so little captured in this image, yet we all know what this is a picture of, and we all know what occurs shortly after this picture. The automobile either ceases combustion and its occupants have reached their destination, or the car and its occupants leave, and who knows when you will see either again? Such is life, comparing what we know with what we do not in an attempt to predict a future with millions of factors and inconsistent outcomes. 'Destination?' is an unbalanced photo that puts all the empty space right of the subject, giving it a lonely or an unpredictable nature.

Until next time.

These photos are real, they are also mine. Meaning I took these pictures without altering the subject matter in the slightest.

 Something could not be captured easily in this image. The biting cold. The water under this Wheel was frozen, something you've got to know about Washington's version of cold —it is always accompanied by a moist wind. I call this photo 'Third Wheel', because it's always left out in the cold. The mechanics of the photo are simple, the Rule of Thirds is used by putting the center of the wheel well on the bottom right third.

 Washington is ever-green. Conifer trees ensure the skyline is constantly obscured with a wall of green. The grass is hearty and only dies in the dry summer. This plethora of green makes predicting the coming of spring somewhat difficult. Only by paying close attention to the tiny amounts of yellow that accent themselves against a camouflage backdrop can you foresee the ever-elusive sunshine. I call this photo 'Sun-drops', because that's just what is looks like.

Industry and nature, its a constant battle. A battle that blackberry makes it a point to win. These barbed barbarians simply refuse to die; re-birthing like a leafy Phoenix, climbing over any barrier and violently intruding upon gardens and yards. Violent I say? Yes, violent. What child has not run bare-foot through his yard in the summer, water-pistol in hand, only to tread atop some hidden trap of dastardly accurate positioning? Maybe its just me. Anyhow, this is how my feud with this 'Black-Hearted Berry' began. The mechanics of this photo are slightly more complicated than the last two. The horizontal plank runs along the top most third, while the faucet is as close to the bottom left third as the photo would permit. There is also a bit of analogous color between the blue and green of the subject matter.

Until next time.