"Memories never lost"
"My first paintball"
"The club"
"Growing up"
"Good days and bad"
The semester is almost over, and writing this last post is hard, but in my mind ive finally realized that catchy aesthetics, and cliche scene like pictures that everyone will love aren't always the best photographs. In fact, the best pictures come from the heart, the ones that are thought about the most, and have the most meaning to you personally. Some may be able to relate, some not, but hearing the story behind each photo delivers a great impact. This week I stuck with Colin Gray's "Abandoned spaces" photos, which describe his childhood and all the empty space that are there as he visits them now. In his photos he uses his children to relive his childhood and bring back his positive experiences. Though in my photos I cannot use the people that give me each memory because they are all no longer around. My first photo, "memories never lost" is of a Hardee's restaurant, the exact Hardee's that my grandfather took me to as a child every single morning for breakfast, even if we were sick we made the trip. My second photo I chose is called "My first paintball", this photo is of the first paintball field I ever played at as a kid, throughout the years I grew and met an amazing family of local paintballers that I'll never forget. My third photo "The club" is of Skate-a-way, I title it the club because that's what it served as to us as children, it was our weekend get away and we could live free and be on top of the world. My fourth photo is of the bowling alley, I started bowling when I was only 3 years old, and my father was a professional bowler. He taught me everything he knew throughout my childhood growing up and eventually sent me to Las Vegas to bowl in nationals for youth bowlers. This place leaves me with such a strong memory that I'll never forget because my father is no longer around me and I cannot see or talk to him. My final photo "Good days and bad" is of my first home that I lived in. So much happened in this household and it leaves the deepest memories. My family fell apart and split up while I lived in this house. It is definitely the most negative memory I have in my mind until this day, though it also serves as so many milestones that happened to me in this house while I lived there.
I've learned that photos need personal meaning, and that expressing your emotions through photos is what makes them amazing. These photos serve such great meaning to me that it is almost unexplainable these five photos describe my entire childhood almost in a nutshell. This class taught me a lot, and I'll never forget it. So I leave you with these five photos, enjoy.
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