Time Traveling in Photographs

To travel abroad is to live your life in a way you never thought imaginable; to see like you’ve never seen and to capture moments you never dreamed possible. Being abroad for 4 months was the best decision I have ever made. I conquered fears and faced tough decisions where I didn’t have the comfort of my family to guide me along the way. I had good and bad days but the good days took over the bad and camouflage the hard times.

I encountered a mild culture shock in Europe. The signs were different, the road systems didn’t work the same and the food was interesting. Although the language was the same in England, it was tough to get around on the continent. Other than living in England, I was able to travel to Scotland, Ireland, Holland, France, Italy, Greece and Spain.

I traveled the eastern world and captured powerful photographs. I have an online blog journal of my travels, but it is important to me to have something in hand. In this book, I am displaying just a sample of my favorite photographs from each important subject area.

This is my trip in photographs.

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Architecture

Architecture is different all over the world. Whether it is a modern building or a 15th century castle. In Venice, Italy all of the houses were connected along the canals. Each house was a different color leaving the island to be very unique. Throughout Great Britain there are areas filled with modern housing. Not only were the buildings tall, but they had large windows and doors as well.

Older buildings such as castles or ruins are made from brick or stone. Although they have been touched up along the way they are still filled with original remains and the same architectural ideas. I captured photos in the way that I saw first saw them. I used the light and angles to fit most of the building or structures characters.

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Patterns

I enjoy taking photos of patterns or textures in everyday life. Whether it is horizontal or vertical lines, reoccurring patterns of circles or a grid structure; I find them fascinating. It is not only the idea of a line that catches my eye, it is the idea that there is pattern and art surrounding our daily lives with out knowing it. I like to create my own art with lines to show uniformity in life.

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Landscape

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A landscape portrait is difficult to capture. It is important to capture the bottom half of the picture as well as the sky, they are both equally important. For example, in sunrise or sunset shots, the sky is more important than the ground because of the emotion and life that the sky conveys. In photos with water, the sun always reflects off of it in different ways depending on the surfaces around it. I enjoy taking photos of landscape to represent that particular moment or feeling in time for me and the way the world affected me that day.

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Portraits

I didn’t go to England alone. There were many influential people that were there with me. Whether it was a classmate or a friend along the way, I like to take photos of them to capture the moment. Although I took hundreds of candid photos and posed pictures, my favorite were the ones that had no idea I was taking them. When someone doesn’t know they are having their photo taken, the photo is real. It is a natural

position that is impossible to capture when it is posed. The lighting is important in portraits. Lighting can either be from natural sunlight or from a light kit. There are decisions to be made about portraits, the decision to let the photograph be a genuine real life photo or to adjust it to make it more dramatic and moody. In these photos, these men were not posed. The light is different in every shot but fits each one perfectly for the emotion I am capturing.

Food

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Food is essential to every day life. Although food is different in each country, it helps shape the individual country and make it unique. I ate interesting foods during my experience in Europe, some I liked right away and others I had to learn to like. Yorkshire Pudding and a donor kebab are more difficult to find than I assumed. The angle I took on each photo of food was one to get close enough to show texture and let the viewer get up close enough to basically taste the flavor.

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Flowers

I have always enjoyed taking pictures of flowers. I like to get close enough to see texture in each petal. England was filled with flowers. The sky plays an important role in the photo of a flower; if it is sunny, it makes for a bright happy photograph, if the sun is behind, it creates a silhouette with less detail. I take most of my photos of nature from an angle that will not distract from the initial subject. I like to focus on the beauty of color in each flower.

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Signage

Throughout Europe, there were different signs and warnings than America. Each sign means something different just like America but I had no idea what most of the signs meant. Apart from the photos shown, the signs were hilarious because they were so literal. Although the signs were varied, the idea of traffic was similar. The cones and street signs all work the same way. The only difference is that the signs were more descriptive.

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Doors

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Lighting

It is important in a photograph to have good lighting. The sun is a natural source of light. It is easy to shoot photographs with contrast and intensity with sunlight. The light helps give dimension and shape to each image through reflection and shadows. With water, it is easy to see a reflection in the water with a quality source of light. With a certain setting on a camera there is an option of adding orbs, the photos I took naturally made sun spots due to the angle of the shot.

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Other

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Index:4: Architecture:

Burano Island, Venice, Italy5: Edinburgh, Scotland

Newcastle, England 6: Newcastle, England

Rome, Italy (Colosseum)Alnwick, England (Alnwick Castle)Newcastle, EnglandBurano Island, Venice, Italy

8: Patterns:Newcastle, England

9: Newcastle, EnglandNewcastle, EnglandLiverpool, EnglandCarrick-a-Ride Rope Bridge, IrelandDingle, Ireland

10: Rome, ItalyWarkworth, England

11: LandscapeDingle Peninsula, Ireland (Far and away)

12: Dunstenburgh, EnglandAlicante, Spain

13: Dunstenburgh Castle, EnglandLake District, Ableside, England

14: Hadrians Wall, England

15: PortraitsAlex Escott, Train from Alnwick to Newcastle

16: Bob Kochmann, Lake DistrictAlex Escott, Train from Alnwick to NewcastleZeb Scanlan, The Baltic, Newcastle, England

18: FoodPepperoni Pizza, Rome, Italy

19: Ham and Cheese Tortellini, Morano Island, ItalyYorkshire Pudding, farewell dinner, Alnwick, England

20: Athens Greece, Donor Kebab (gyro)Lasagna, Morano Island, ItalyBaklava, Cape Sounion, Greece

21: Flowers22: Lake District

Rome, ItalyWarkworth, EnglandWarkworth, England

23: Alnwick Castle, England

24: SignageLiverpool, England

25: Liverpool, England (both photos)26: Leeds, England

Galway, IrelandNewcastle, EnglandLiverpool, England

27: DoorsDingle, Ireland

28: Dingle, IrelandEdinburgh, Scotland

29: Edinburgh ScotlandDingle, Ireland

30: LightingThe Baltic, Newcastle, England

31: Newcastle EnglandGalway IrelandWarkworth, England

32: Alnmouth train station, England

33: OtherCarrick-a-Ride rope bridge, Ireland

34: Killarny, IrelandAmsterdam, HollandCarrick-a-Ride, IrelandGalway, Ireland

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