Heather Green, Images for Critique, 5/6/2013

For the final week, I have decided to continue the work of Alec Soth. Over the past month I have been researching him and his work. He is actually a very interesting person. He travels all over the world and he even has his own business. I tried my best to inspire my pictures after his. The first one I also used in last week's blog post. It shows my mother and father having one of their only "good moments". He's helping her make breakfast and she's looking at him because she knows he has no idea what he's doing. I thought about it and this picture belongs more in the project of Alec Soth's called "NIAGARA". The project shows couples who have hard love lives or a really bast past relationship. This fits perfectly in there because now, she's not the only one trying to save the marriage anymore. Maybe loved doesn't just die. The Second picture is of someone dear to me. We walked around the park, trying to find wonderful inspirations for this project. In Alec Soth's project "Broken Manual" there is a picture of a man hiding in the woods. We wondered why he was there and if it was a posed picture. The third picture is of my good friend Dylan walking down the path in the park in Powhatan. This picture I used two weeks ago representing my interpitation of the picture also in "Broken Manual", of a man walking on a bridge. I had no idea where this man was going or what his emotion was on a count of, well, you can't really see his face. It's interesting though, it makes me wonder what this man is going through down the PATH OF LIFE, ha-ha puns. The Fourth picture is of my and my friend again representing the shadow of a couple also used in the Broken Manual Project. I thought it was great how he captured a couple just by their shadows, and that is what I tried to do in mine. Can't you just feel the love? In the final picture, I decided to use one purely about nature. It's also based off of a picture from Broken Manual. I loved his work mainly because he told a story, without words. When I saw his pictures, stories and words that I didn't think I could ever come up with came into my head. I felt like I was actually understanding Photography for the first time. Now, I look at every picture in depth. I look for meaning, and the heart and soul the photographer puts into the image. And most of that came from my wonderful Professor, Thank you Mr. Shane for showing me a new aspect in the world of photography.