This Photoblitz assignment was really fun! My friend Grace and I decided to go into downtown Fredericksburg to do this assignment because we felt that we would get the most interesting photos there. Downtown Fred has all kinds of things: it has cute little restaurants, adorable boutiques, pretty and peaceful park areas, and, of course, the river.

Converging Lines

Unusual Angle

Interesting Shadow

During our Photoblitz adventure, we had all of these things available to us and it made the experience very easy and awesome because there was so much stuff around us that it was easy to be creative and get perfect photos!

This experience worked out really well for me, I think. The setting of downtown Fred really made the assignment super duper easy because literally everywhere I turned or looked there was something I could potentially turn into a picture. I took one picture and then walked back to the main road, looked up a little, and the perfect picture was there, just waiting for me to capture it.

Two items that DON’T BELONG together – Nobody should Stop the Pursuit of LIberty

I really enjoyed looking around everywhere I walked because it enabled me to really look at things, look at everything around me, considering every possibility. So I really was able to “Stop and smell the roses” today and that was really nice

The photo that worked the best for me was the one that expresses human emotion. This story is really cool how I got this picture. I was walking down the sidewalk past the Floral Shop in the big white house and there was a park area with pathways, trees, bushes, flowers, etc. all right there. I looked to my left and was looking around, thinking “How am I gonna get a picture expressing human emotions?!” I was thinking maybe getting something that looks like a smile or a frown… and as I was thinking through these things, I turned to my right and saw this bike rack. I was immediately inspired by this ordinary object! The up and down of the bike rack represents the up and downs of human emotions. Humans are never consistently happy or consistently sad. We experience all sorts of different emotions and are always fluctuating between them.

Expressing Human Emotion