Inspiration: Lovely Words

I've recently been reading some John Green books (courtesy of Sam Roschewsk), and I'm always so touched by how beautifully he can phrase a sentence, as well as how funny he can be in the same paragraph. For instance, he expressed in The Fault in Our Stars "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations." I loved, loved, loved this sentence. I found it to be absolutely beautiful and I always took inspiration in those kinds of sentences.

John Green has also expressed, "Chicken nuggets is like my family."

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That's all okay, though, because he's hilarious and I think that being funny in a serious situation is actually fantastic. Here is the inspiration for my life himself:

He wrote this: 

In context, it's a much more beautiful sentence, but it has a series of inappropriate curse words before that, so I'm sadly only able to give you the end. However, John Green remains probably one of my favorite authors, and favorite people. 

Montage/Composite Inspiration

For my montage, I had a lot of inspiration to use something that directly affected me. For instance, I used drawings of buildings in cities I wished to go to, to show my love of travel. I also used milk and cookie earrings, which I'm still not quite sure of the meaning of, as well as a variety of photographs that included my idol, Audrey Hepburn, and words from a bracelet I scanned into the computer.

 I used Big Ben as one of the buildings/monuments in a city I'd love to visit! I've always wanted to live in England, specifically London. So to have Big Ben on my image was the most important part. It was my biggest wish. I also used this picture of Audrey Hepburn: 

Montage Tutorial

For my montage/composite, I used a few different tutorials to add the effects of some of my images. For a lot of my work, I needed to use a shadowing tool to make my images look more realistic with their surroundings. I didn't know how to do this myself, so I had use this tutorial video to show me how:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEv9enWUOWQ


Along with the use of shadowing effects, I was using the specific color to take pieces of uploaded pictures to my image. To do this I needed to use Color Range, but since there is a variety of different ways to use Color Range, and only one specific way in which I wanted to use it, I had to look up another tutorial to understand. To specifically take colors from an image and delete the others, I used this tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yKEu25tEU

Inspiration: My puppy

Even though my dog, Lilly, is a stinky, old little thing whose tongue hangs out in a strange way, I love her. She isn't photogenic, she isn't even cute really, she's just awesome. She has had cancer for I think three years now, and was only supposed to live for 2 months! She's my miraculous little puppy, even if my friends make fun of the way she snores at night.

I love to take pictures of her. She may be ugly and a bit crusty with a perpetually angry looking face, but she is really the sweetest little thing you could ever see.