When I was younger, I used to have a big fascination with crystals. I used to love how they reflected and refracted light so I began a small collection of them. This is one of my favorites from that collection. This brings back many memories of visits I would take to the museum and the large crystal collections there. I made sure to take the picture when the sky was clear and bright so the crystal's colors would be clear.
Throughout my life my family has always had different flowers throughout the house, and this is one of them. They add a really good color and feel to every room. In the summer time my mom usually plants a garden including flowers like this, I have a lot of really good memories helping her and my step dad. When taking this picture I had issues with focusing on the individual petals. I also had problems with reflecting light on the table but overall I like how the pictures turned out.
Around four years ago one of my best friends got me this after her long summer trip in Russia. She was originally from Russia so every summer she goes back there to see family. The frog is made out of jade and she told me that the person who sold it to her said it holds healing properties. I really like how it looks because o the colors and shiny specks in the jade. Putting it in front of the light made the colors pop.
This particular object is an antique brass sculpture. My grandpa had a lot of these in his house of different types of animals like dogs, pigs, cats, etc. When I was younger I really liked how they looked so one day he let me pick out a few to take home. I chose this one, a pig, and another one that was also a pig but different. I really like the antique and worn aesthetic of this sculpture so that is one reason I chose to photograph it.
In my room I have a lot of different small plants that I take care of, kind of like a miniature garden. From all of the plants in my room I thought this one would be best to photograph because of the glass it sits in. When I placed it in front of the bright windowsill the glass and plants looked really bright and beautiful. The circular cutout was a really pleasing part of the picture and added a good element to he circular shape of the glass. The fact that the sky was very clear and blue definitely assisted the beauty of the picture.