Lone Tomato

While I was wandering around my house, taking pictures of all sorts of interresting things, I happened to walk into our sunroom and found this tomato sitting in there. I though it was weird, because it was just sitting there, all by itself, a long way from the kitchen. I have no idea who put it there, but I thought it made an interresting picture.

ATTACK!! (Week 6)

When I looked at this Aloe Vera plant from the top it looked a lot like a killer contraption in plant form. I decided that the best part about it was the spikes on the leaves, which in nature really might look like it would hurt or be a defense but they offer little protection. To me this represents the idea that looks can be deceiving and can fend off attackers with just the intimidation of being scary looking. All I know is that if I were a tiny little man I would not want one of these to attack me if it could.

99.9% Sanitized week 6

This is just a picture of hand sanitizer, I like how the bubbles never go away. and the blue is really nice too.

Lights...Camera

This picture seems really interesting to me because I took it from inside my tanning bed. If you were to just look at this picture, you probably wouldn't know what the heck it was. I thought it was interesting because the lights form a pattern, they almost look like blinds.

WO 5

This is a random picture I took while I was moving, I like how everything is distorted and blurry. Stupid picture but I like the way it looks.

clock wk 5

When I took this picture I was just trying to take a good picture of the clock but it ended up looking like this, which I think looks cooler. It sort of looks like the time is flying in from the back.

Fence

This is a picture of the fence at my parents house. These holes have been in the fence ever since I can remember, and I remember as a kid I would pretend they were binoculars into my neighbors yard and we'd play games from them. But looking at them now, it's weird that the holes kind of have a pattern to them, with two smaller holes on the inside of the board, and two bigger ones on the outside. This "pattern" was evident in other places on the fence, but I couldn't show all of it on my camera phone.

Cross wind

In this image I took a picture of a cross that is on our farm. It sits up on a hill by the hay field and I noticed it one afternoon as particularly fantastic. I love the contrast that the sun puts on the "shadow" side of the cross. It makes it seem that there are two sides to the symbol of the cross. There is always the peace and joy portrayed by the grace of Jesus that we find at the cross, but there is also the suffering and pain that he had to endure for us that we so easily turn our heads to. In this image it was nice to be able to capture that moment for me as to how dark it really is on the side that has no light in it.

Stripes

This is a picture of the air vent in my house. I like the pattern of stripes that the vent strips made.

Sign in Middle of Know Where Wke 5

I saw this street sign out in the middle of nowhere. I was at least 10 miles from the nearest town in chase county. This is a sparely populated county, and it struck me as amusing that this bright green sign would be placed along a winding gravel road where few people ever travel.

Windows

I thought this was a really interresting image. You can almost see a pattern in the window panes, and I like how it looks with some of the glass broken out. I love old buildings like this. I'm not sure why, but the image of something deteriorating and broken like this has always made me stop and look twice.

Night Lights

I took this picture Monday night leaving the casino and this was the hotel next to it. The lights are from every floor of the hotel and they changed colors and I have never seen anything like it so.....I thought it was badass and took a picture.

Paint Cup week 5

I was painting and realized how neat the colors i had mixed looked on the outside of my paint cup.You can see the yellow i started out with and how i worked my way to a dark blue.

Dried Wax Wk 4

I know this isn't a very good picture, but I was trying to hurry up and find a picture to put on here. It's a picture of some wax that was spilt from a candle sitting on our fireplace mantle and nobody in our house had noticed it until it was already dry.

Kaleidoscope Week 4

In this picture that I took, I find it very interesting the type of pattern that the film of plastic creates. This was just a reflection shot I was taking and then I noticed the fact that it would look like a kaleidoscope from almost every angle that I took the picture! Very unique in the fact that I was only looking for a reflection in a different color, but I also got a very neat pattern!!

Mother Nature's Windshield

I took this picture from inside my truck when it was raining last week. I really liked it because it made everything we see look distorted. It kind of made me wonder what it would be like if everything we looked at everyday was changed into some sort of new pattern or texture. It just refreshed my vision on the everyday things we look at through mother nature.

Shadows W/1

This picture was also taken on the 10th of Feb. I was in my room wondering what else I could put on here. Then I noticed the shadows from the ceiling light. I thought they would be a kool pic so it's now a blog.

Reflection W/2

The relection on the glass shows the building and the surroundings. Including the clear blue sky. If I hadn't been looking for something out of the ordinary I would have probly just walked in the door.

Week 4

This is a picture I took in the pitch black. I like how the letters were originally white, and now they look like they glow in the dark

Different Colored Bricks W/3

The picture was taken on the 10th of Feb. I noticed that the darker bricks sort of stand out. I wouldn't of noticed if i hadn't of been looking for something that I dont notice every day.

No Fish? W/4

I took this pictue in the library upstairs at BCC on Feb 10th...we noticed that there were no fish in the fish tank so i took a picture. I probably wouldn't have noticed that there were no fish if we hadn't of been looking to abnormal things around our suroundings.

Roses

I took this picture this weekend for the anniversary of my uncle's passing away, and these were two of the flowers we brought with us. I just had them sitting on the dashboard, and noticed the vibrant colors. I think the Yellow, pink and white in the rose petals, and the green stems really compliment the bright blue sky.

Field

I realize it is not the greates picture i have taken but I really like the patterns of the grass on the field with light and dark alternating on such a large scale. That is the reason I even took this at the Kansas City Royals Stadium earlier this week at a baseball camp. I also noticed the many different shades of green in the picture.

Church Steeple/ Week 4

I saw this old church down in Old Town in Wichita. It was really a very beautiful old building, but I thought its steeple was probably the prettiest part of it. I loved the architexture and design of it, as well as how it looked against the blue sky, so I got out of the car and snapped a quick picture.

Elevator and Sun Silhouette/week 4

I was driving around the countryside taking pictures for my photography class. I came across this simple abandom elevator with the sun sitting behind it. I liked the way the dark building contrasts with the sky. The sun made it really cool looking I thought.

Fog-week 4 post

View from my window...green is favorite color and it always seems most vibrant after a thunderstorm or on a foggy morning. Fog is kind of like the future, there is only so much you can see at a time.:)

Hair at 400x week 4 post

I took this photo in my A&P class. It a microscope at 400x, and I put my camera up to the eye piece to take it and used photos like this as a way to study for my exam. This has great color and I think a really amazing way to see hair down to the root.

This picture was taken during the thunderstorms and edited a little bit with some blue color, but I really feel that it's almost a representation on how powerful nature can be over mankind. The one thing that still keeps us on our toes and the "last" thing that we can't control is weather. I think its so cool how it can be a powerful force that demands to be reckoned with. This lightning is just a symbol of that power and how it can strike fear into almost anyone.

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Blurry ¿ Carnation

I took this picture last night of some
simple carnations. I originally took the picture
to put on my background but then i starting
moving them around and changing the lights
around, eventually I came out with this picture.
I like it because most of the picture is blurry
and then you see this huge burst of color from the
carnation. The colors are beautiful here, and the
blurry baby's breath gives it depth. The view also
makes this picture. I took it by sitting on
the floor facing the camera up with the light from
my desk lamp hiding behind the flowers.

Dragon Fire

Okay, so this sounds stupid, but I took this picture at a party this weekend just because and after I started looking at it. I found that it looked like some kind of dragon or something. It just looks like a tail and a dinosaur head or something. Maybe someone else can see it? I just like this picture because it's like looking at the clouds and trying to make shapes only with fire you have to take the picture at an instant. You can't just look at a fire and find a picture because the fire keeps moving.

Midnight Drive

I was on my way home and I took this picture while I was driving. I like how the headlights lead all the way out to the other light like a tunnel. I also like how like how the lights seem to be floating because of the dark.

Candle Light

Our power went out last night and I had to light a candle in my room. I thought it looked pretty cool when the light reflected off all the things on my desk at the time. If you look really close you can`see them but my phone doesnt take the greates pictures so the quality is not as good.

Ceiling prints

This is a picture of a ceiling tile. I think it looks like a million footprints in the sand from a high view.

Carpet

This is a picture of carpet. It is a little bit blury but you can still see the design. I like the pattern it makes because it reminds me of cheetah print.

Night lights

This is a picture of the refinery lights at night. I guess i was a little shaky when i took this picture but it turned out to look pretty cool. The design reminds me of a loopy roller coaster.

Invisible Key

This is kind of an odd picture, but I was driving to Bazine, KS this weekend with a friend, and happened to look over at her ignition. I did a double take on it because from the angle and the reflection, it made the key seem transparent.

Design on my car

I took this picture the other day as I was getting in my car. The frost is on the hood of my car, and I found it interesting how it forms lines in some areas, from short lines to long lines. But it also has random spots of ice. It's a really cool pattern made from the cold weather, and it would have been completely gone had I checked it only a few minutes later after my car warmed up.

House Fire

Sometimes life gets complicated. This is a photo of a neighbors house after a fire that destroyed it. The fire was last fall and it has sit in this state for at least six months. When spring arrives it will be a sharp contrast to the flowers and trees surrounding this blackened shell of a house.

Tall Grasses

This photo was taken along a roadside in Chase County. I'm always amazed at how tall the grasses grow in the Flint Hills. I like all the thin vertical lines made by the grass in contrast to the post and horizontal barb wire and tree line.

Soccer

My brother played on a soccer team past fall and this was a practice before their game. I found irony in the fact that with the freeway in the

background, everybody was rushing from one thing to the next. But for my brother and his teammates all that mattered was stretching and getting ready for their game. They won.

Mattress

This is what is left of an old burned mattress out at our property. I liked the bedsprings lined up and variate in color from brown to black. It shows that even when you burn something there's always something left, be it ashes or metal coils.

Jeans

I took this photo at my parents house. I like the simple old fashioned look. It reminds me of a stress free summer day.

House

This is the side of my unfinished house. The black paper is held to the siding and therefore the side of my house by the orange plastic tacks and metal plates. The black paper is supposed to protect the house from the elements and be covered by dirt and landscaping. It has been like that for 4 years. I walked by it everyday and didn't really see it until this assignment. I liked the pattern of the black paper and the pieces holding it in place. Also its contrast against the yellow siding.

Under the Bridge

I took this during my lunch break the other day. I was walking down on the walking trails and this railroad bridge spans overhead. I thought it looked really cool, and it's something most people wouldn't notice. I think people are often to busy to just stop, and look around them. I actually had to climb up under another bridge to get a picture at this angle. I liked how it looked though, with all those girders and how it makes its own pattern. Plus to me it carries a bit of nostalgia--when I was a little kid, my Dad and me used to go out and walk around train tracks and look at all the bridges and stuff. This just reminded me of when I used to do that.

Restriction On Nature

This picture shows how mans carbon footprint has effected nature. Barbed wire is cutting into this tree, it has been there for years and has no plan of leaving. This is just a small example of the monstrous carbon footprint of mankind on nature.

Simple Truth

This picture of a single cigarette butt in the middle of a landscaped part of a street median caught my eye last weekend. I was in Kansas City with a friend, and we were people watching when I looked down and noticed something almost blended in with the dead foliage around it. The cigarette butt is a classic example of human debris in a natural environment. It also just seemed to compliment the dying grass and plants around it, maybe even a symbol of human's footprint on the earth in cities especially.

Machinery

This picture was taken in the old barn behind my house. I was just wandering around out there, when this old piece of machinery caught my eye. I decided to zoom in on this one part because I loved the texture and image of it. I'm a big fan of anything rusty, old or mechanical related so I snapped a picture. I wish the image quality was better, but the lighting was bad and my camera's flash was giving me issues again.

Shadow flowers

I took this picture becaue I like how the flowers cast a shadow on the white wall. I also like it because the flowers are so much smaller than the actual flowers. Also I like how you can see every pedal on every flower it is very distinct.

Grammy

My Grammy had always wanted to take a helicopter ride. So for her birthday that's exactly what she got. This is a random neighborhood in Augusta. I loved the monotonous feel of this image. And the helicopter ride was amazing.

Simple Rose

I chose this picture because it is simple and the white background on it really made the two colors red and green pop out. You can also see the shadow behind the petals of the rose.