The Journey of a Dandelion.

For my non- linear narrative, I choose the journey of a dandelion. The journey can start in many of places and end the same way. This choosing is more of my referral to how life can begin and end. No matter how it happens the outcome can be just as mysterious and the journey a dandelion can be. 

"Opening"

"Blooming"

"Blow hard!"

"Death"

"The end of the beginning"

"Bloomed"

"The beginning of death"

"Close to the end"

"The beginning"

"The start"

"Fluff in the open"

"The journey of seeds"

 For my editing process I wanted to use a mixture of color and black and white. I also used different brightness, exposure, contrast, deepening of black and white, blurring, cropping, and many more. I wanted some of my main focal points to be more of the apparent part of the photo. 

Each name I choose represents the journey or part of the journey of where the dandelion is at and that no matter how it is in the process the story is still unpredictable. 

Shutter Speed: 1/125   1/25    1/30

Aperture: F5.6  

ISO: 9,000      3,200

Expanded Portrait

 

For this photo I choose one my portraits of my daughter. I started with the overlay of my textured photo of her favorite blanket that she sleeps with every night and tried to highlight the colors over the black and white photo of her. I then added in one of my shadowed photos which displayed the shadow of a tree on to a garage door and layered it over the blanket texture. Key loves to look for shadows and she just happened to be with me the day I took that shadow photo. I feel I got the outcome I was looking for and it gives the representation of things she likes and places we explore together. 

Portrait's!

 For my photos I used the same setting with the adjustments being small when needed. Shutter Speed: 1/125 Aperture:8 ISO:6400

This Keydence and she is my 4- year- old daughter. This photo of her shows her trust smile of them all! She is my inspiration for all that I do and without her I'm not quite sure where I would be. For this photo I used the natural sunlight outside but loved the aspect of the black and white. She is of a mixed races and this light and black and white quality of it still gives her the beauty of this factor. My second photo of her is her more silly side and gives her the true meaning behind her attitude and personality. She is why I fight and push for self-acceptance because in the world we live people lack this trait often and showing and demonstrating to her how to allows for her to be herself and all she has to offer.

This is Rhyla, she 8- years- old and is my niece. She is quiet the character in her actual personality, but for these photos she showed her genuine side and let her actual emotions show. This hardly happens with her as she is more of the let my silly side show kind of people. This photo I took in my living room as the sun was moving through my bay window. It helped to highlight her freckles and simplicity of her smile. 

This is Bentley, my 3- year- old nephew and the only boy around our house. He was super excited to get his photo taken because he seen what I was doing with the girls. This is the first time he was willing to let me take an actual photo of him and gave the best smile he could ever. I took his photo outside and it displays the natural lighting given off by the sun. The way the sun was shining on the back of him forward helped to give his eyes some dimension and brought out his true meaning for smiling. 

The perfect trio around my house a lot of the time. These three are my biggest supporters when I am unsure of who I am and why I choose to work with children for my foreverness. They also support each other which is a huge thing for me and something I have always wanted for my children. This photo was taken in my mother's living room and the sun wasn't shining directly in to there, but the lighting we received shows who they really are from their smile to the I'm going to cover my smile to the "look at my lips auntie!" 

This was the last photo I loved because it represents each of them for who they are and what they want to be. They know how to keep themselves going and how their silliness represents them on key and doesn't give a fake aspect of who they are. 

Thing Itself, Detail, Frame, Time, Vantage Point

 The Thing Itself: Lesson learned first, able to deal with the actual, to be treasured and not just dealt with. Can defeat a photographer. It gives the real world the opportunity to show the thing itself through the camera lens and can show what in the world is around us. 

"Only those who know"

"Concentration at its finest"

The Detail: Unable to escape the small truths of a photograph. Truth telling facts are a must. Critical to the detail and attention put into it. 

"Growth"

"Frontal display"

The Frame: Never fully contained his subject at hand. Emotion and thought should be evoked. Making sure to exclude certain elements to allow other elements of the photo to be evoking. 

"Endless Adventures"

"Entangled view"

Time: Develop time can be short or long in duration but is required for all photos. Allows for each part of the time to be described. Measured in a single photo or by a series or photos. 

"Running free"

"Where has time gone"

Vantage Point: Allows us to see different and varied vantage points within the photograph. Used at times to allow people to see and be able to experience the variety of things through places unable to be seen or gone too. 

"Unknown homes"

"Wondering free"

The Photographer's Eye

 

Artist: Larry Beard

Title: Fire and Ice

Taken: 5/03/2013

Title: Foam Bones

Taken: unknown

- National Geographic photographer

- Profession surfer for 12+ years

- From San Clemente, CA

Artist: Ansel Adams
Title: Juniper Crags

Taken: 1963

Title: Shore, South of Timber Cove

Taken 1962- 1963

- American landscape artists

- Drawn to nature's monuments

- regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself

-  believed that photography could give vent to the same feelings he experienced through his music

Artist: Imogen Cunningham

Title: Canna 2

Taken: 1920

Title: Cornish School Trio, 2

Taken: 1935

- Photographer for 70 years

- Founding member of the f.64 Group

- From Portland, OR

- Resided in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Eliot Porter

Title: Shad Tree, Spring

Taken:1957

- Started photographing birds and landscapes

- In 1930 received a Leica

- Inspired by Ansel Adams

Title: Spruce Trees in Fog, Maine

Taken; 1954

Artist: Eliot Porter

Artist: Thomas Heaton

Title: The Narrows, Zion National Park

- Became serious about photography at 16

- All of his images are about the outdoors, and all tell a story

- From North East England

Artist: Thomas Heaton

Title: Rio de la Cascada

Artist: Ted Gore

Title: Oceanside Swirl

- California- raised landscape artist

-Was the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2015

- His portfolio is his testament to the incredible range and his ability to translate scenes with unconventional features.

Artist: Ted Gore

Title: Maui's Pearl

Artist: Daniel Kordan

Title: South Greenland

Taken: 2016- 2017

- Nature is his inspiration

-Currently in Bali, Indonesia

- Loves Lofoten islands

Artist: Daniel Kordan

Title: New Zealand 

Taken: April 2015

Artist: Max Rive

Title: Future Memories
- From the Netherland

- Landscape photographer

- True and deep passion for mountains and landscapes

Artist: Max Rive

Title: Dolomites Autumn

Artist: Mandy Lea

Title: Unknown

- Conventional photographer for 17 years

- Last 5 years has been teaching landscape photography workshops and guides backpacking trips

- Brand ambassador for several products that she believes in, uses, and shares similar values.

Artist: Mandy Lea

Title: Unknown

Artist: Callum Snape

Title: Unknown

- From Vancouver, BC, Canada

- Commerical, tourism, outdoor photographer

-Work reflects his passion and layered with landscapes, lifestyle, travel, adventure, and personalities that have a meaning

Artist: Callum Snape

Title: Unknown

This is me.

 ShaLee Maree Smith

Hard working, independent, and supportive.

Daughter to two wonderful parents.

Who loves my daughter, husband, and family.

Who feels admiration, courageous, and fortunate.

Who finds happiness in the children I teach, co- workers I mentor, and seeing my child grow.

Who fears loss, defeat, and heights.

Who likes to wear green, black, and blue.

An native of Montana.

ShaLee, who some day wants to be able to see the changes I have been able to assist in.