i took the picture then edited some details in adobe lightroom.

I was in SF on a very windy day, showing off the city I have been living on for the past 7 years to my family members who had just arrived from Brazil. I saw how beautiful this city is and I wanted to exalt its beauty.

Worn down and used basketball hoop representing age and time

when I'm driving down the freeway at night I think about how it looks like one side of the cars look like angels because of their white lights, and the other side looks like devils with their red lights, so I wanted to capture this on camera.

This photograph was taken on the Philippines' Calatagan Beach. This photo features a solitary island with a lone tree and sunset skies in the background.

My models was Abesolom When I was editing, I felt surprised and proud of myself. What I like about this portrait is that I am creative when I edit a photo.What I like about this portrait is I am creative when I edit a photo.As the photographer, something I did well was I took a professional photo and created a focus and made a good rule of third. When I look at this portrait I feel happy because I did an edit photo of a contract and saturation. To edit this portrait I made a brightness and contrast. Then I did an edit of hue and saturation. Next I made a color and paint in portrait and I exported when I was done. I practiced how to be patient when I edit a photo and to be successful when I edit it. While working on this project I learned how to edit professional photos and to focus when I edit them.

I was taking a walk through the hills of Marin when a hiker crossed my path. I was walking right before sunset and he was moving towards the sun, so I asked him if I could take his picture and was able to capture his silhouette as he was waling away from me.

I was challenged to make a creative fast shutter speed photo. I had some cards, a scream mask, a top hat, some christmas lights, and my dad. And this is what I came up with. At first I thought it was going to turn out blurry and dark, but after trial and error and lamp after lamp to brighten it up, I was happy with the results.

I am a junior in high school and taking my first photography class. this was my first experience with shutter speed and i'm pretty proud of this photo. It slows down time and freezes a moment forever. which I think is pretty cool.

My grandma loves her garden so I decided to take aperture photos of a variety of flowers and succulents in her garden.

I went out to Sonoma Raceway to capture some of the race cars that would be there. But quickly someone asked me if they could "hop in the shot." Since I was already taking a picture of their car I couldn't say no. And quickly he invited his friend over, and I spent the rest of the day capturing the car community working on their cars rather than just the emotionless cars themselves.

This is a masterpiece of the Sequoia San Francisco Transportation Ferry riding in to the horizon. This photograph was taken at the Berkeley Marina, My Grandma Loved to spend time here with me when I was a kid.

I had this wonderful ballgown in my closet and wanted to see what I could do with it.

This is a photo I took when I encountered a pride of lions in South Africa. Both the matriarchal female and the dominant male of this pride had contracted wasting disease from consuming contaminated wildebeest. The disease was brought to South Africa by cattle ranchers who introduced infected cattle. The disease soon spread to the native wildebeest population and has since then become a destructive force to lion populations. With the leaders of the pride slowly dying a painful death, the younger generation must step up to hunt and feed the rest of the pride in order to prevent collapse. The photo centers on the young main lion of the pride, in that moment he stared right through the brush and into my eyes. His eyes expressed so much emotion it seemed to tell his story.

Admiring the passion that represents the heart and soul of San Francisco as a city

This photograph is of a sandbag wall in front of my house that had a mix of white and orange sandbags. I had attempted to use other subjects but I wasn't happy with the results I had been getting. I had spent some time just strolling around my house with my camera when I noticed the sandbag wall. I am a big fan of high contrast and black and white photography since there is something so timeless about it. I figured that this contrast between the orange sandbags and the other white sandbags would make a really nice subject. I took this picture in as neutral light as I could get since I didn't want any strong light to take away from the natural contrast of colors. After I took the photo I edited it in Lightroom. I had taken a community collage class over the summer on photography and it had taught me to use Lightroom and other useful photographic knowledge. After putting this and a few other images in lightroom I made the image black and white except for the orange sandbag. I not only did this to maximize the contrast between the sandbag and its background, but also to allow the image to pop out from the crowd. The orange is eye catching since it isn't surround by other colors to distract you. After all my editing I decided this was the best image and I hope you do too.

This image was taken in a cactus garden. It captures the intricate design network of cactus spines, an adaptation for survival. The cactus spines serve as a focal point highlighting the stunning symmetrical pattern in nature.

I found that people are naturally attracted toward sunsets—generally viewing them as something out of a dream. I aimed to try and find a sunset that personifies this dream like view or ethereal idea people have of sunsets. I believe the sunset over Berkeley was my best attempt at capturing that.

I got the inspiration to take this photo from another photographer named Todd Hido. I really like his photos of Bay Area houses at night, and this was my attempt at trying to recreate that. The photo has added grain because I really like how it adds to the texture and sort of eeriness of the photo. When first taking the photo of this house, I actually did it on film. I asked my mom for her old film camera and went to our local camera store and bought a roll of film. I had shot on film previously but never at night, so it was really fun and challenging for me not to know what the photo was going to turn out looking like. However, the photos I captured of this house on film were all very over or under exposed, which was a disappointment to me, but it's also part of the learning process, and I appreciate the fact that when taking photos on film, you don't know what the picture is going to look like until its been developed. Even though my film photos didn't come out the best, I still liked them and wanted to see what they could have looked like, so I went back to the same house with my digital camera and took a photo, and I am very pleased with how it came out.

My whole life I’ve been trying to find a passion. I’ve always put myself into a proverbial box by doing things I thought would make the people around me happy. Photography to me was always an afterthought. Something I did mindlessly, without thinking just by clicking a button on a phone screen. Photography was not art, it was an action. It took a teacher of mine to show me what more it could be, to show me that photography takes control, creativity, and an ever thinking mind. He showed me the way to my true passion, the one that makes me happy, not anyone else. The umbrella series originates from a singular photo I took when I was just beginning photography, less than a year ago. The series focused on vintage photos, and I felt umbrellas added a kind of mysterious vintage look. Through this project I learned that umbrellas are much more than what I thought before. Umbrellas are masks, they hide us. You will see that many of the photos in this collection involve people facing away from the camera, and holding the umbrella either above or behind them. I believe this pose illustrates both umbrellas ability to mask our identities and hide us from things we are not yet ready to see.