Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Ali

Ali and I met (like Sarah and I) through the African drumming and dance class on campus. I love her spunky style and outgoing personality. Ali is the life of the party!! I knew she would be a lot fun to photograph. She was able to let lose and be goofy in front of the camera and she, Sarah, and I had a great day because of her upbeat spirits. I look forward to taking more pictures of this beautiful lady in the future.





Photographs: Taken at Radar Hill near Ohio University's campus with my Nikon D60.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Sarah


Sarah and I met through the African Drumming & Dance class this year. I was fortunate enough to spend my spring break with her. She is a wonderful person with a very kind heart. Her enthusiasm is absolutely contagious, but she also remains humble and grateful. Even though she carries a shy demeanor, Sarah is a natural in front of the camera. I like these close up shots. They were a few of my favorites from her frames.




Photographs: Taken at Radar Hill in Athens, OH with my Nikon D60 with natural night (and without, unfortunately, a reflector).

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tulips

My favorite flower.



Photographs: These flowers were spotted on my trip home for Easter this past weekend at Eden Park in Cincinnati, OH. I loved the vibrant colors of the flowers and the intricate patterns inside of the petals. All photos were taken with my digital SLR.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Best Friend



I unfortunately have not been giving my camera the amount of attention it deserves lately. Hopefully that will change this weekend when I go home to visit my family for Easter.
Even though I have not been taking as many pictures as I would like, I still wanted to post. I dug into some older files and noticed that I countless pictures of my best friend, Rachel, and I (these three being among some of my favorites).

Rachel and I met in the first grade when I was still living in Maryland. Since then we have been the best of friends. We were inseparable as children, partially due to the fact that we had all but one class together in elementary school. It was wonderful growing up down the street from my best friend. This allowed us to do everything together and caused people to ask us constantly if we were sisters, or even twins. Unfortunately, a move in the eighth grade on my part separated us by many miles which causes us only to see each other maybe once a year or once every two years.

However, the distance has also been a bonus in that every once and awhile one of us gets a little "mini vaca" in order to visit the other. I recently got to see Rachel in Washington D.C. Although it was only for half of a day, I enjoyed seeing where she lived, her school, and hearing about the "happenings" in Burtonsville. Before then, Rachel visited OU. I give her props for coming out in the dead cold and staying in an old dorm room just to visit me for a few days. I really enjoyed sharing the university with her. Some of my fondest memories, however, were just a few years ago when I visited Rachel as a freshman in college. I stayed in her home in D.C. and we visited the museums as well as Ocean City. Ocean City has been a beach where we have spent a lot of time in our younger, pre-teen years for birthdays and youth group trips.

Photographs: All three photographs were taken with simple point and shoot cameras (I believe this one was an HP) and lightly edited with basic photo editing software. The first of the three photographs was taken at Ohio University when Rachel visited our sophomore year. The last two photographs were taken of Rachel at her Maryland home close to three years ago.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

19 South




The population living in Athens consistently brags about how the town has one of the best "music scenes" around. At first I wasn't quite sure if I believed this, being that Athens is very small. I figured that a larger city would have a lot more music to offer, but Athens is indeed a great place to experience many diverse artists. Music venues in Athens are not by any means scarce. There are a wide variety of bars, coffee shops, and even basements to choose from. No matter if you want to entertain your audience with some hip hop beats, serenade them with a smooth Latin beat, or melt their faces off while jamming on the Djembe, Athens is a great place to start up a band. Or for someone like me, Athens is a great place to listen to many different, very talented, young musicians with unique personalities and bands with spankin' new flare.

Photographs: All of these photographs were taken at 19 South, a location uptown in Athens where many budding musicians play. Among my favorites are the Jazz Cream Assassins. The first photograph was taken at "Jam Session", held on Monday nights. The second photograph is of my friend, Josh, who plays with Five Foot Forward. Photographs I have taken of Five Foot Forward are featured in their 19 South 9/5/08 album. Finally, the last picture features the hands of guitar player, Dan Perez, of Elemental Groove Theory.