These are my self portraits, now, I chose these two portraits because they are so similar yet different. The first one on the top is of myself, staring at the windows and in the background you see Miami's buildings. I chose this one because to me I feel that sometimes your so far away from something so close. Miami is known for being the party city and the city where fun happens yet I feel like I'm in the dark and just staring outside to watch others have their fun.

The picture below is of me again, on a balcony, I'm staring down at the street, it was a busy day buses were coming through and cars were leaving and coming, but on that street corner was a park, and I longed to be there. But instead I was trapped, in a prison of sorts, these bars from the balcony held me back and all I could do was long to be there.

To me both these photographs showed who I really am, a person that even in the light or the dark is still so far away from the rest of the world and just wants to be apart of it.

If I was to look through the eyes of the beholder, I would only see myself, looking back at me

Not all your subjects will be people, they can be animals and plants and even buildings.
I chose two of the many pictures I have of my dog named Coco, on the left, and my bird Paulie, on the right. Both animals are extremely different, for instance Coco is a mammal and Paulie is whatever birds are; but when it comes to shooting them I chose two different places for my two very different subjects. Coco is a very hyper dog who is friendly and loves to play, so I chose outside; even if her personality doesn't show my dog is still a very good model, whenever I take my camera out she poses and looks at it and smiles. On the other hand my bird, was one of the hardest subjects I ever tried to take photographs of. I put my bird on the chandelier in my dining room and my bird almost flew away, but instead for one moment in time it turned its head and looked directly at the camera giving me this great shot! With both my subjects I played with something in particular; for my dog I played with lighting, I made sure it was bright and that she would totally be in her element meanwhile for my bird I took him out of his element and played with focus since my bird is so small and I wanted to make sure my subject could be seen and would be the only thing someone would see when they look at my photograph.

Don't let your fear of change
restrain you from trying new things

~Paulette LaValley~