facial expressions and body parts

Some of these were accidents; some were partial accidents.  Either way, I love the textures and confusing emotional content.

beach candids

I love how public beaches force people to cluster together and consequently how people respond to this exposure to others (on a few levels) and try to impress one another.  Plus, the sunlight creates a great contrast for my images.

more color, less people

Ok, so I really need to stop giving into my photographic guilty pleasures and branch out a little bit.  I've had a lot of good opportunities to shoot recently (thank you sunshine), so I'm trying to expand my comfort zones little by little.

recent ponderings

In light of the last batch of images I uploaded, I'd like to extrapolate on my growing fascination with candid photography and particularly that of people I don't know.  As a general rule, I try to photograph anything and everything, and in the past I've taken candid photos of strangers as a way to challenge my ability to make interesting compositions of a moving subject and to photograph without being noticed.  Lately, though, I've been thinking about the idea that people in our culture are taught to be reserved and only show certain aspects of themselves.  So much about being human is seen as disgusting or inappropriate in most contexts, and many people try to appear to fit into social norms, especially when they know they are being photographed.  Because of this, I've been trying to capture those moments when a person doesn't think they're being watched as a way to discover who and how they really are.  I found a notebook the other day that's mostly filled with to do lists and homework, but that includes encouraging messages to its author every few pages.  This, to me, is a prime example of candid photography, even though it obviously takes on a completely different kind of medium.  Anyway, any suggestions for what I could do with this would be much appreciated.

more b&w

sometimes I follow people around with my camera...

...so my photo teacher recommended that I start to showcase my findings of this strange, strange world. Although I don't plan to limit this to only my photography, I thought I'd start with this one.