Winter Wonderland

villains of the moon

pushing onlys

all these things i've done

main man

beautiful darkness

the time don't show when the sun gets carried

let's hear it for new york

shoot out the lights

cannonball

mambo italiano!

miss you!

i don't recall a single care, just greenery and humid air

we are searching, we are hopeful
be my valentine

green eyed girl

someone like you

chaos 

a chance encounter

wavin' flag

through the looking glass

we left our love in our summer skin

on the lake

home

leaving on a jet plane

meadows

mans best friend

like a drifter, i was born to walk alone

free falling

Urban Decay!

                                                                            

The Ends Not Near by Band of Horses

Press Play :)

This is my Urban Decay Project. I photographed these pictures mostly around lock three in downtown Akron.  I very much appreciate the beauty in run down buildings and rusted wires. As I photographed these pictures I pictured what these buildings looked like when they were first built and how they thrived. I thought of how well appreciated these buildings were at one time and now they are abandoned. I still see beauty in these buildings. The theme of my project is that there is beauty in everything. People pass through lock three and surrounding areas everday and I can almost guarantee that people have never appreciated those buildings and viewed theme as beautiful as I did during that day. The objects that I photographed are ordinary things that have just become old as years press on and now they are viewed as not worthy and have been replaced with something new and better. The song I chose for this project was The Ends Not Near by Band of Horses. because overtime these buildings have been replaced with something that is more fit than they are, and their time being useful has ended. All they are now is urban decay!

take me away
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do no enter
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city vines
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electric feel
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rusty footprints
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rustic
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rusted code
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the city's leaves
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decomposed strength
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utopian
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transitional
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man made nature
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beehive
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All of the lights!

street lights by kanye west // press play.

My theme for this project was all lights! Everything lights! I honestly fell in love with the way that light photographed at a slower shutter speed. When you reduce the shutter speed, lights show beautiful colors and intricate patterns. I chose this song because it was one of my all time favorite songs. I thought the introduction music of the song was phenomenal and went with the crazy lights I have in my photographs! Press play and enjoy the photographs!

freedom is not free
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if you judge people, you have no time to love them
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silence never changes when you live in a city with no name
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our real discoveries, come from chaos
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maybe this world is another planets hell

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the difficulties of life

 are intended to make us better, not bitter

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and the road to life,
yes, it goes up and down
doesn't really matter
as long as the music goes on
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the pupil dilates 45% when looking at something beautiful
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the roughest roads, often lead to the top
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shutter speed - 10/600 

i think of you in colors that don't exist
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