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Vacation/Inspiration

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inspiration

What motivates me to make photography, is the ability to capture beauty or a moment in an image, as cliché as it sounds.im very big into nature, and wildlife. I grew up going to Fire Island a few times a year. It’s a beach off the coast of Long Island and I just really enjoyed the scenery. This is what made me interested in photography. I would just walk around by myself with a cheap digital camera and take pictures of the island. When the motivation of photography is internal, I feel I benefit from it in a way that I feel satisfied with my work. I never feel as if my work is good enough, and always compare it to someone else’s. When I end up with some great photos however, that makes me feel good about my work as well as gives me motivation to continue and do better. When the results are external I hope for a good reaction from the observer. If the person enjoys the photo, or a group of them, it gives me hope that I’m going in the right direction as well as hope for making a career out of something enjoy. As I said before, what inspires me is nature, wild life, my dream of traveling and seeing other places, and my want to better myself. I feel the connection between what inspires me and my photos are greatly linked. I take a lot of landscape and animal portraits, trying to capture the beauty of the scenery, and the personality of the animal.

The photo definitely catches your interest and draws your eye. It’s a great picture of destruction from a tornado. There’s so much in the frame that your eyes travel around it to see all of the broken pieces of people’s homes and lives. With this it gives off a lot of emotion, making you feel bad for the people homes were destroyed and a bit of awe for the fact that this happens in a matter of minutes as a tornado goes by. Also with this destruction it makes it interesting because for someone who lives in the north, I never see what a tornado does to the people in the south. With this, I’m able to see how easily things are ruined down there, and that people’s lives can be uprooted so easily. The focus of the photo is pretty clear; it’s a crushed broken car, in the midst of other wrecked objects like the house and its interior objects. To enhance this photo, it could have maybe be framed different, so that you’re able to see more clearly what has happened to the row of houses and where the things have landed. It could also be shot at another angle, maybe to give it more of an edge to add to the sad and destructive feeling do enjoy the second picture that goes with the first, which illustrates the calm and normality of what the street was like before the tornado.