Photos Week 13 - March 18 - April 1

1.

This week, my pictures have a morbid theme to them: car crashes! How fun! But seriously, I ended up seeing quite a few battered cars this week, and I tried to capture the chaos and wreckage of the aftermath. This is the inside of a battered car found on campus that was cut in half. I went inside it and got this 2 shot of the driver/passenger seats. It's very dark, and doesn't have a whole lot of color, but I like how fractured the windshield is and the remains of the airbag. A little macabre, but I feel like there's a lot of drama in this photo.

2.

This is the front side of the car.  Way more chaotic, but also less colorful than the last one. It's also a little cluttered, and tonally it has even more affinity than the previous photo. But I still like the chaos of thee twisted metal.

3,

This was the area right behind the car, which was found on the southeast side of campus. I think the brightness settings kinda washed it out and desaturated the colors a little, but I like how there are all sorts of mechanical workings that you normally never see just hidden everywhere, and that without them, nothing would function. I think it's cool to pull the curtain back every once in a while and see the mechanics of life.

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Another battered car. I took this one rather quickly, and I think it shows in the composition (and in the fact that you can see my shadow on the left side). Still, I like the juxtaposition of something destroyed and chaotic in the midst of a quiet, peaceful suburban setting, although I don't think that feeling was quite captured here. I would've needed a wider angle, or I needed to show more of the houses in order to better portray this idea.

5.

This is a side view of the same car. I feel like this photo says what I was trying to say in my last photo a lot better. The contrast between the nicely cut green lawn and the battered red and grey of the car is much more striking. Also, I like photos that dirty the frame or divide the frame in half, like this one does. It allows for some interesting contrasts to be made.