MIAD part 2

 This was the first picture I took when we got to the coffee shop outside of MIAD. The broken sign at first attracted me to take this picture. The sign looks mangled, yet somehow cleanly cut and artistic still and I realized after taking it how the MIAD sign fit perfectly into the background. This sort of represents the entire day and brings me back there. The artistic ways that we saw in MIAD don't follow a cleanly cut rule but they still work out, like this picture did. I really like this picture and in the beginning I took it just for fun but it turned out better than I ever could have thought.

 The architecture in the Third Ward was very different and inspiring. Initially I liked the different feel of the blue light posts. In the past I was drawn to the light posts at my house and these offered a unique look that I can't find just down the street where I live. These really represent the different more artistic feeling of the Third Ward and that is what I like most about them. I have never really seen anything like it before and I was also drawn in by the unique lines and perspective available from underneath. I chose it as a contrast to the other lights that I have tried to draw and to keep myself looking at all of the different options that are out there that I just haven't seen yet.

This final picture I took when we were just messing around waiting to leave but it turned out, surprisingly, to be one of my favorites. The unique colors and architecture of the building is what first prompted my to take the picture, but it was also the nature that I wanted to incorporate into the photo.
This actually reminds me of middle school English class and that is because we read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn there. The shadow effect that I got from the tree behind me was completely accidental but I love it. It became the focal point of the picture which is something that is different, that i did not expect, that I still really like. It feels protected yet open to the new space that is the Third Ward and it worked out well. I'm sure there are other photographs that use shadows in interesting ways but I have never experimented with it like this before and it is something new that I will have to keep up.