I walked around the car, tossed the spare set of keys to my friend (just in case I lose my keys or lock them in the car, we have a spare on us) and I see this amazing scene. I am here in this town to find something, anything to shoot for my homework assignments. I have to use my film camera to take 120mm images, take digital photos for a photo series, and in addition to that – I must be inspired by a photographer from before the 1940s and emulate their work. (These are just the things that are due this next week!) I have taken only a few shots so far today and I had been driving for over two hours and here before me was this serendipitous find. An image that I knew I had to take. The Sun was high in the sky – about noon – the crisp, cool winter mountain air and these stairs… My goodness, these stairs. I fired off a few shots with my Pentax, my friend turned around to look at what I was shooting. I had no idea what this building was or why it has a staircase rising up, what seemed to be the back of the building, and a bucket – an old wooden bucket – sitting there perfectly placed. This was the most beautiful thing I had seen all day and that is saying something considering I just came down from the mountain tops covered with snow. My friend asked me why I took a photo of this, what assignment would I use this for. I told him, this one is for me, (“The Simplest Thing”) this one is because I wanted to take it, it is a beautiful scene. He smiled and agreed at the beauty. We then continued our walk down Main Street and took in the “small town charm”.

I seriously do, I HATE SNOW! You know it is one thing to live here in Denver, Colorado, in the city and have snow and then have the Rocky Mountains and them have snow. Incase you were wondering, Denver is not a mountain town, it is on the brink of the prairie just miles from the start of Tornado Alley. But let us get back to the subject at hand here – I HATE SNOW! The weather at the beginning of…

It was wonderful, I got the test shots done, camera placed, focus set! Let’s do this! My friend came back and it was on. I remembered what my friends had told me, make sure the continuous shooting was on and the locations were marked. Unfortunately, my friend was a little off to the right and I cut him off but once he went down on bended knee and asked his question, his girlfriend gladly and eagerly accepted! Then I made my friend get back on his one knee so I could take the photo again with him in the right spot, haha. I gave them hugs, I took their spontaneous photos of love and happiness then took a few shots of the ring and of them posed.

I need to work on my posing. There needs to be more research via the library and internet for the next people shoot I go on. I will gladly take suggestions if anyone has any, leave them in the comments or send me a message on the contact page. It was a good day, I came straight home and edited the photos for my friends and they loved them. I know for me, these are really lovely. I know with more experience and practice these could be spectacular. I can’t wait to learn more from school and from my new mentor (I am helping Cam with a studio shoot tomorrow, yay!). Right now, I do well but in four years, I’m going to be great! Posted below are some of today’s photos, I hope you enjoy them!