nature portraits - Christopher Shannon

so im not very good at journaling but i take pictures all the time and always keep them to reflect on later. thanks to this class (and others from redick) ive come to look at nature in a different way. before i never photographed nature, perfering portraits. but thanks to this class ive learned that nature has a life its own... it can be funny, serious, happy, and sad... so i decided to include some pictures from nature walks ive gone on during this class... now its one of my biggest if not the biggest inspiration i have, even my portraits are almost all in nature... its weird to think that i never even considered nature at all let alone as important before redick... but its EVERYTHING





lots of these were taken from my facebook albums "nature EVERYWHERE" and "nature EVERYWHERE - part deaux"












its kinda weird how we feel the need to change nature... even by something as simple as picking a flower to take with us...



its amazing how it all works together like the fungis on the tree







this is like my new favorite place... its all wetlands as you first get on isle of white... i found it randomly and i love it.










man made beaches are kinda amixed bag for me... i like them cause thats what a "beach" is to me, or at least has been since i was a kid.. but i relay like natural beaches... ones where the trees or rocks or something go right up to the water... its my favorite place. where the water mets the land. there is this one place on rosavelt island in DC that is the epitomy of that... its my favorite spot to escape when im up in nova. so diferent then the man-made gardens or beaches










the drive to tech was so beautyfull i couldnt believe it... but it was weird because it was the day of the shootings... it make me feel better that the world was stil beautyfull and there... ive been thinking about the world in the context of nature constantly since this class started.









i have soooooo many more... thousands...
but i figured this was more then enough.. hahaha