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In the Shadows

The shadows and placing capture one's attention, the way my sister and palm tree are on one side of the photograph and the shadows on the other.

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Submerged

I took this photo on a long walk after rain during quarantine. I find the complexity of leaves, combined with their fragility, a really interesting subject for photography. This leaf—almost completely submerged in water, but with one tip still in the air—creates both visual contrast, and a possible connection to our current circumstances. The leaf could represent us. What with the pandemic, racial injustices exhibited throughout our society, and the climate crisis, it can feel we are drowning slowly in hopelessly dark waters. But the one tip of the leaf still above the waterline, able to breathe, represents the hope that we can get through it all.

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Red

This photo explores the theme of opposites. You have the contrast of nature and technology, represented by the leaves and the car. You have the contrast of old and new, represented by the shiny body of the car vs its fading and scratched wheels, and you have many contrasting shapes: the nautilus shape of the wheel well, the circle of the wheel, and many intersecting vertical and horizontal lines both on the car body, and in the diagonal scattering of the leaves on the wet pavement.

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Footprints in the Sand 1

Footprints in the Sand is a small group of photographs that talk about our imprint on the ocean and the beaches. The beach is a safe haven for me and I want to protect the beaches so other people later on can have the same experiences as me. I hope that these photographs help people see how easily the land is influenced by our imprint on the environment.

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The scare

You don’t know if this roller coaster is something crazy or just a little kids roller coaster… it twists and you don’t know where it’s going…

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Dance kaleidoscope

I chose this photo because it’s calming with the sunset, graceful leap, calm waves, and calm colors. I think it also looks cool with the editing because it looks like a kaleidoscope.

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A peek into my world

I show my corner, the corner where I do my thinking, create my ideas, where my journeys begin. I show that you don't need an over the moon area to be able to do things.

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The fire

I took this picture when the sky literally looked liked we were living on mars. I love love nature so much, and thought that this picture showed so much of what were living in right now, major fires, a pandemic and so much more.

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The Unknown

This is a picture of my gecko Kevin. I was taking his picture for the shadow prompt in my photography class. I used my sisters' flashlight and a blank wall to get risp shadows of him.

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Footprints in the Sand 2

Footprints in the Sand is a small group of photographs that talk about our imprint on the ocean and the beaches. The beach is a safe haven for me and I want to protect the beaches so other people later on can have the same experiences as me. I hope that these photographs help people see how easily the land is influenced by our imprint on the environment.

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The Transformation of Jesus

Contrary to what you might see in a Western church or an art gallery, Jesus was not white. He was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. In our society, its clear representation and diversity matter very much and can be very powerful tools to help others. This applies for media, much more a prophet. Portraying Jesus as he truly looked, might help subside the anti-Semitic, and xenophobic views some alleged Christians have. Continuing to imagine Jesus as white, when he was undeniably not, is by definition, racist, as it promotes the notion that a particular race is superior to another.

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