Richard Misrach

What to say about Richard Misrach... I really love the lighting he uses to capture his images. Lighting can make or break an image and I feel the setting in which he is able to capture them makes you drawn into them. They are all in such naturalistic settings which also makes them more beautiful. I found the picture Pyramid lake below to be one of my favorites. The way the clouds reflect onto the the water just adds so much more beauty to the shot itself. I'm a big fan of nature images especially ones that he does in the desert. In a way they are inspiring to go take night shots out in some different environment and play around with them. It's crazy to see what kind of shots you can get just by fooling around with a camera.

Sally Mann

Personally I find Sally Mann's work to be my favorite. I like the fact that she has stuck to using old fashion style cameras and has made it work to her advantage. I think pictures nowadays are becoming too digitalized and her work is straight. Of course she has to take quite a few to capture the image she wants, but the art of her pictures are beautiful. I found what she said all of her images have to be "peculiar, if not why bother shooting?" Anyone can take a picture it's just magic when you find something and make it work. Black and white pictures are so natural and it's crazy to see how she was able to get the lighting and settings just right to work with her. I think her work is a lot different than any of the work we have seen before. You can tell she is a very down to earth type of person and it comes out in her pictures. She doesn't need the crazy city lights or life to take amazing pictures. She is able to find her works of art right in there in nature with people and objects. Who knew that a picture of a dog bone could loook as amazing as she shot it. Her dedication to her work shows in her images, and you can tell she lives for capturing that one perfect picture because she will do it over and over again if she has to. The quality of her work is something I think that will help her always be remembered.

Collier Schorr

Collier Schorr had a really strong message. You can see she has a strong passion for shooting adolescent men and how she depicts them in different settings. She tries to take real events but then reenact them in different ways. I found her work kinda weird, and kinda seemed obsessive in the video since all we saw was her work of young men. When i looked up her work online you can see she has a passion for photgraphing both adolescent men and women. The way she speaks about what she is shooting and the whole concept of men and masculity you can tell she is shooting something she loves, something some of us have a difficult time trying do (find our one passion, and then actually pursing it) Her work is inspiring because I find it such a talent to be able to get your message across in your pictures which i think she does quite well when she explains it.

I personally thought her work was inspiring but I personally didn't think it was anything special or extraordinary. But I don't think that was her purpose.

here are two of my latest pictures. one was taken aboard a cruise ship i went on, and the other was from a bridal shower i attended. In the first picture I really liked the colors, and the other i just really like how the candle becomes the main focus. I just wanted to share some of my pictures that I really truly like.