Let it All Out

Again, this picture was taken at a sort of “photo shoot” that I went to with a few of my friends. Actually, this was taken at one of the first shoot I had ever been to. One of my friends and fellow tennis teammate is really into photography like I am. She had done a few of these shoots before and invited me to one.

There were a lot of people there I did not know. It was sort of awkward at first. I was not used to telling people how to pose, or what to do. I didn’t want to seem pushy so even if I didn’t like what they were doing, I would just keep snapping pictures because I didn’t want to tell them to change positions. Halfway through the day, I began to ease into the mood better. I began instructing at least the people that I knew but hadn’t yet worked up to courage to boss around the people I had just met. This particular shoot was conducted in my friend’s back yard. There first was a small, thin layer of woods. There were dead, broken trees, old creepy tie swings, and a moderate hill that sloped into a creek. Once past the narrow, shallow creek it was just fields of tall golden stalks that resembled something of wheat. I’m not exactly sure what kind of plants they were but I gathered two conclusions: They were tall, and they were sharp. The girl in this photo, Phoebe, was pushing the think plants out of her way when one stabbed her pinky and she started bleeding. Normal people would go “oww” and run back to the house for a Band-Aid. Not her, she giggled and wiped her pinky blood on her faceto be "authentically artistic." Yup, unlike my friend Sarah who had fake blood on her face, this stuff is real. So as I saw Phoebe standing there I was like “Phoebe, scream.” So she did, and this is the picture that I got. Then I went on a photo editing website and added in the rusty looking border to add more of an affect.

I like to think this photograph depicts what some people do, or want to do, when they are angry, sad, pissy, or overall just having a terrible day. I know sometimes I just want to scream until my veins pop, and I think the emotion is captured well in this picture. I don't really know what words to describe this picture with. It is sort of like, if you look up the word caterwaul in the dictonary this picture would be there.