Rockland Lake Swan's

This winter has been crazy.  It feels like one minute its 32 degrees snowing and the next its 63 degrees and sunny. Well anyways after that beautiful friday we had a couple of weeks ago i went to a lake by my house to take some photographs. Its like the weather was like night and day. The friday it was so warm and the next day, the Saturday i choose to go its 32 degrees freezing and extremely windy.  I found some swans walking on the lake so i decided to photograph them.

The swans looked confused as i was with this crazy weather

Editing Assignment #1

To start this semester it was very hard to decide of what to photograph because all it seemed to do was snow and after photographing snow scenes for a couple months it starts to get old.  To start off my editing assignment I continued from where I left off in intro to digital photography. I kept photographing landscapes.  Below are some of my photos

The next theme I chose was of others. Here is where I photographed my friends. I have never really photographed people before so I thought i would give it a try.   I enjoyed photographing outdoors in the snow

Study Abroad in Costa Rica

Last Summer I studied tropical ecology in one of the most beautiful countries  I have ever seen, Costa Rica. For the entire month of May I traveled the entire country, going to many different rainforests. Costa Rica is the one of the only countries in the world thats different forest environments. The type of rainforrest I visited were a wet, dry cloud and beach. each rainforest is unique in its own way. The Places I visited were:

 The capital city San Jose

La Selva (Wet Rainforest)

Palo Verde (Dry rainforest)

Monte Verde (Cloud rainforest)

Manuel Antonio (Beach)

San Jose Capital City 

National theater In San Jose

Streets of San Jose

Me next to a leaf known as "Poor mans umbrella"

Poas Volcano 

 Lake Near Poas

Bird watching

Poison Dart frog

A cricket by the swamps

 A snake we found on a hike

 One giant beetle!

Trail in La Selva

Bridge entering the Rainforest

Aranal Volcano

 An iguana 

A coati

 Palo Verde

 Monkey in a tree

 A toucan 

 A sloth 

 A tapir 

Manuel Antonio 

Obsessions

To start of the spring semester the first project of my Intermediate Photography class was obsessions.  For this project our instructions were to photograph the same subject 100 times. No matter how many times you photograph a subject, each image will be different in its own way.

For this project i choose to photograph a playground near my house. We just had a huge snow storm, and the park was covered in snow. I photographed the slide 100 times.  When photogrpahing the slide i would change my angle, height and view.

Below are my five best of the obessions assignment.

The park was photographed at all different angles

My Photography

For as long as I can remember i have always enjoyed taking pictures with my digital camera.  Weather it be a family occasion, a vacation or just a day hanging out i have been interested in taking pictures. I like to  take photographs so i can create visual memories of places i have visited.  To start off my blog I am going to share with you some of my favorite pictures I have taken.

Above is a picture of a red eyed tree frog. This picture was taken this summer at the swamps in the rainforest of La Selva in Costa Rica. Out of all my Photos this is my favorite. 

Above are two photos of my dog Cody 

Above are pictures from my final project for Digital Photography.  The theme for the project was landscapes.