Elements and Principles

I decided to take pictures of my everyday life, which included, walking down Elmwood, eating dinner with my boyfriend and  playing with my friend's hamster.  Starting with the picture labeled "Unity", I felt the vines of the plant and the leaves all really went together.  Nothing really stuck out as disjointed or confusing about this photo it all felt very unified.

 The next photo, labeled "Balance", is of me and my boyfriend our two very light toned faces take up most of the photo mine on one side his on the other balancing out the picture. 

The next photo, "Proportion", is of me with Oreck the hamster showing an obvious size difference. 

In the photo of value, when I saw the glass I remembered how black and white pictures look with glasses and how you can get really good highlights from the light in the room when you take a picture of them. There was a spectrum of light to dark in the room that could be displayed very nicely in a gray scale. 

In the next photo, "Harmony", there is a definite repetition of color and other elements such as texture throughout the photo. 

The photo of the repeating square tiles was really interesting, I could have labeled it a few different elements or principles but it definitely stuck out as an example of the element shape.

  At first when I took the photo of the twin towers on the Psych Center I thought of balance but then I remembered the element, space, which refers to the distance or area around or within things. 

In the "Rhythm" photo, the number of windows on that building stuck out while i was on my walk, and I knew that I could use this photo as Rhythm for how the windows repeat from one side of the photo to the other.      

The photo of the red door says nothing else but emphasis.  When we walked by that house my eyes were automatically drawn to that red door.

When you look at the white rocks in the photo labeled "Texture", you think about how bumpy and jagged those rocks are you wouldn't associate those rocks with being smooth they look like they have a very distinct texture. 

I love fall and how the leaves change color.  What better thing to resemble color then this leaf.  

When looking for an object to be my example for form, I was sitting waiting for my food to come at Pano's when I looked down into my tea and saw my lemons mixed in with my ice and thought it would be an interesting picture.  

I liked the crosswalk picture and was debating whether not to use it as movement or line, because crosswalks imply movement especially since I made someone cross in it when I took the picture.  but I liked the use of line.

A top my desk sits a variety of knick-knacks, what a better example of variety.  So many colors and textures, yours eyes do not know where to look first.  

In my movement photo I was going for one of those night time, high speed, car light, kind of picture where the light moves across the picture where the car has been.  It kind of did that and should the motion of the cars and I like how the highway winds around.