I absolutely love taking pictures. I wrote my college admissions essay on photography. I was in this beautiful garden in San Juan Capistrano taking photos and there was this incredibly beautiful and haunting spiderweb. It was so large and intricate, I felt humbled by the frequent petty concerns of high school life. I was enchanted by the web and wanted to photograph it extensively. After leaving the garden, I was so excited to get to the dark room and develop the film. And then I discovered the entire roll was terrible. You could barely identify the spiderweb at all. And I realized that sometimes true beauty cannot be captured, whether by lens or words. You are just left with experience. That moment will be one I remember for a great time, while the terrible college essay's content was blocked out long ago. I aspire to capture the beauty in every day life that I see, even when it's an impossible feat. So here is portion of my collection.
