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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Through the Stairwell

I took this photo in a stairwell of a historic building at Brown University. I went there to visit the school but didn't expect to fall in love with the architecture as well. I tried many different angles (I even laid on the staircase) working without a tripod in this darkly lit room until I got the perfect shot through the staircase of "choir" and "loft". This is one of my favorite photos I’ve taken to this day and it’s definitely inspired me to shoot more architecturally and grow into the photographer I’ve always dreamed of being with an eye to bring out the beauty in good architecture.

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The Flame

These photos took inspiration from art work with light painting and me trying to create something with light painting, but using a different type of light. The method I used to create this light was through items I had on me such as a lighter and then through the night I tried to paint with light on different objects using trial and error until I liked the finished piece.

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Pensive Waterbuck

This photo was taken on a Jeep tour at Safari West, a nearby wildlife and safari conservation park. The waterbuck immediately captured my attention, and I loved how it was posed, looking out the doorway down to the valley below. I waited until the light was perfect, composed the photo, and captured the image you see in front of you. The photo was not edited, as I felt it was meaningful to keep it natural and an accurate representation of the wildlife to have a better impact.

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Bird on the Water

This is a very special piece to me because of the meaning it has. It was taken on the last day of summer, when I had gone to the beach with my friends to celebrate the summer. I wen't with no intention of doing photography, but during sunset, I decided to take out my camera, and I took this picture. It was a very spur of the moment thing, and it will forever remind me of the end of summer 2023.

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Enjoy

This was taken at a car event, I am very interested in cars and got the chance to go to this event in Monterey and take photos of some of the most beautiful cars ever made.

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Down the River

After a few minutes of walking through windy streets of Chicago for the first time, I reach the sight of the Chicago River and catch a glimpse of the sunset. It is very crowded so I was in a hurry, but I quickly took out my phone and captured a picture of the sunset reflecting off the buildings along the river. The time was 8:13PM and although I spent another 7 days there, I was unable to capture that same scenery. My timing was perfect and the adrenaline rush of the busy allowed me to snap a flick at the perfect without overthinking the lighting exposure and all the other camera features.

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Cliffs

I love film photography for the reason that, at a distance, it reduces everyone to small specks of grain. Set that grain against an expansive background and it's like they never mattered. I started taking pictures because I thought I needed to be more interested in people. Ironically, photography detaches you from that. It makes you an observer of all the beautiful disgusting things that humans do. And it makes the world bigger than it was before.

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Ishaan C Photography

Ever since I was younger, I have always had a passion for creating content, especially through photography and videography. This passion was explored as I traveled to numerous places across the world. After receiving my first digital camera in 2022, I began my professional journey in Norway, which was my first trip with this new camera. After that, I continued my journey, not only taking photos on numerous trips, but also for events in my daily life, ranging from personal to professional endeavors. Today, photography has become a way for me to express stories and emotions through my work. I plan on chasing photography and videography as a professional career in the future, shooting for events, music videos, and more.

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Bikers Destiny

During my time at First Exposers, I’ve expanded my interest in photography. I’ve made some great memories there and took many photos to capture my moments. During our time we were given the assignment to capture motion blur using our cameras. We started to look at oncoming bikers and cars and snap; I took my masterpiece.

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The Grand Lake

The anticipation of seeing a movie you have been waiting months for, combined with the smell of fresh popcorn is just one reason I love the movie theater. Growing up in the Bay Area I always went to the movies with my father, Grandparents and friends at the grand lake theater. The colorful lights, the history and the atmosphere made me fall in love with this place. I wanted to capture the excitement of the neon lights with the amazing architecture. I achieved these details at night through having a long shutter speed and a high aperture. Through this I also got the passing cars creating a nice addition of lights and lighting on the streets.

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Crown

I wrote this song about a relationship of mine that recently ended. This song is about how spontaneous some relationships can be, and how, in our generation, everyone is so picky about who they make a romantic relationship with.

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Violin Concerto 2 in D Minor, 1st Movement by Wieniawski

Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer. His second concerto is considered one of the finest works he ever composed, and is a turbulent piece, with both lyrical melodic lines (as in when the solo violinist enters for the first time) and technically challenging passages with difficult shifts, string crossings, and up-bow spiccatos. This piece was dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate.

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Four Personalities: Red

The piece is called "Red" from "Four Personalities" composed by Alyssa Morris, an oboist. This movement is an accompaniment with an oboe and a piano. The piece begins with an unsettling beginning that climaxes into a "rage" in the end. Unlike other compositions, “Red” was composed based on personalities.

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España Cañí

España Cañi is a musical work and the work written in 1923 by Pascual Marquina Narro and the piece was first performed in 1926. Also, the piece was created in Spain on a train, containing many intense rhythms, and very famous throughout the world.

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