Roses on top of Sheet Music



While working on some other photographs, I suddenly got this idea to photograph some roses.  I was not sure of how I wanted to photograph them and I remembered that I had seen a long time ago, a single rose on top of an old love letter.  I thought that why not use some sheet music instead of a letter.  After a little bit of research, I knew that I wanted to use Beethoven as the underlying music for the photograph but could not decide on which song.  I remembered that one of his solos called "Fur Elise" was about his proposal to a young girl and the song title translates literally to "For Elise."  After a few different setup positions and quite a few photographs later, I finally found a setup that worked with what I was trying to get at.  I worked different angles and different light source positions and found what I liked.  I hope that you enjoy this as much as I had taking it.

The Boxer's Mural

Downtown El Paso on the De Soto Hotel, is believed to be one of the largest boxing murals in the world.  This mural was completed in 2004 and features some boxers that are part of the El Paso's Boxing Hall of Fame.  I took this photo while conducting another assignment for college and this one deals with culture.  So I thought that I would show some of the culture of El Paso as shown in the murals around the area.

Location of this mural:

De Soto Hotel
309 E Mills Avenue
El Paso, TX 79901

College Assignment - Song of the Wandering Aengus

I am not sure that many of you out there know that I am going to college.  I am attending The Art Institutes of Pittsburgh Online and pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Photography.  In one of my classes this past week, we were asked to listen to a poem called "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" and then take some photographs of our interpretation of the poem.  There were so many different ways the poem could be interpreted that it was almost impossible to pick just one photo to submit for the assignment.  I decided on this photograph and try to make it seem like a dream state look with everything in black and white with the exception of the strawberries and blueberries.  I tried to convey the dream like feeling in the same way we dream; keeping all the black and white out of focus and the colored items in focus with a lot of clarity.  I don't think that I felt justified in the interpretation of the poem, but with the time of year and other situations that were working against me, this was the best one that I came up with.  But in the end, I was satisfied with the outcome.