Camille Sgrecci

      Lee Friedlander spent time in the 1960s and 70s photographing urban areas through reflections. He used objects such as doors and lamp posts to frame reflections of people and other objects. As he walked down the streets in New York City, he saw inspiration looking back at him: endless possibilities. His use of shadows, highlights, and framing give me a new appreciation for capturing a quality reflection.     Friedlander used different angles, lighting and distance to create a range of images, each with a different result. In some, he captured the object as well as its reflection, as though it was a perfect mirrored image. With others, he stood directly in front of a glass panel and used an object on the other side to frame his head. The creativity he had while creating these is beyond anything I could have imagined. As a kid, my brothers and i always thought it was fun to stop and make faces at our reflections, sometimes forgetting there could be people lo...

      Photography is a popular form of art. Most people take pictures everyday using their smartphones or digital cameras, but most of the pictures taken on phones people may not think of as art. Just like art in general, photography does not have a solid definition but rather one that changes based on who you ask. While photographs can be used in work and being a photographer is a job for some, many photos I feel are taken in leisure to capture a moment or memory.      My mother is who first introduced me to photography. She always had a camera with her trying to capture my brothers' and my childhoods. When I got to be 12 or 13, she trusted me with on of her cameras when we travelled to national parks in the midwest. While she focused on the friends and family we went with, I looked at the landscape. I wanted to capture what I was seeing so I had something to look at when I got home. I knew nothing about photography, I did the "point and shoot" method, luc...