Patterns and Backgrounds

1. Common Rebel
2. This photo was taken of a bush in front of a home in Chandler, Arizona.
3. This photo demonstrates patterns by breaking it. There were many leaves just like this one and if I had used a deeper depth of field it would have just blended into the pattern. But by using a shallow depth of field, I broke the pattern. I'm really like how it turned out :)

1. A Walk
2. This photo was taken at a park in my neighborhood in Chandler, Arizona.
3. This photo demonstrates good background. The background is pleasing to the eye and gives context to the subject. The shallow depth of field gives just enough so that the viewer knows where the subject is but also allows for the viewer's eye to be drawn immediately to the subject.

1. Beauty in the Ashes
2. This photo was taken along a trail in Chandler, Arizona. (It's like I live there or something :P)
3. This photo demonstrates bad background. Even though the subject is interesting and in the forefront, the background colors throw off the viewer and make the photo seem chaotic with too much going on. Even with the shallow depth of field, the random brown blurred splotches are distracting and take away from the subject.

**Just so you know, my blog automatically puts the white edging on all of the photos, so just know that I did not put those on them.

Leading Lines and Balance & Symmetry

1. Serenity of Space.

2. This photo was taken at the Barn in a Gilbert neighborhood. 

3. This photo demonstrates leading lines because both the horizontal line and diagonal line bring the eye straight to the focus of the photo. This photo is clearly edited. I made a lot of little edits, but essentially I drastically heightened the contrast, clarity, and mildly tweaked the highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, vibrance, and saturation. After editing it so dramatically, I just couldn't go back to the original photo-it looked so flat. Let me know if you hate it :P 

1. Harmonized Life
2. This photo was taken at a house in a neighborhood in Chandler.
3. This demonstrates vertical symmetry because the photo can almost be folded in half horizontally. (Almost because of the plant.) This photo also demonstrates balance because both halves of the photo are equally filled. I really like the calm balanced feel of the photo.

1. I Thought of You
2. This photo was taken in my home on a table.
3. This photo demonstrates asymmetry because both sides of the photo are not the same. The only editing was cropping and fixing the white balance so the white was really white. I also really like how simple yet intriguing this photo is. To me, it tells a story, but perhaps that's just because I took it :P

Rule of Thirds & Color

1. Country Girl.
2. I took this by the fence across from my house.
3. This demonstrates color. Green and yellow are analogous colors because they are next to each other on the color wheel and look good together. The only editing I did was a slight crop to make the line of the wire straighter. It still looks crooked because the left side of the wire is darker than the right side of the wire so it looks further back and tricks our eyes. Sorry if that drives you nuts :P XD

1. Olivia.
2. I took this at the Gilbert Arizona LDS Temple
3. This photo demonstrates rule of thirds. It can clearly be split into vertical thirds. I really like the water in this. :)

1. Breath of Color
2. I took this at the Gilbert Arizona LDS Temple.
3. This photo demonstrates Rule of Thirds and Color. Green and Red/Pink are complimentary colors. They create good contrast; the green really makes the pink stand out. It also demonstrates Rule of Thirds because the center of the flower matches up with the intersection of of the top horizontal line and the left vertical line.

**Also, my blog automatically puts the white edging on all photos that I post, so I'm not the one putting that on all of them.