The Familiar

Choosing something familiar for this assignment was a difficult task for me.  Because I am not at home, nothing is really familiar to me here in Nashville.  The reason I ended up choosing this swing as my subject is that I see it everyday when i walk out the front doors of my dorm; it's the only thing that seems familiar to me here because something about it reminds me of my home in Kentucky.  The three pictures are shot from three different perspectives.  I chose these specific angles because they show the swing in ways I don't normally look at it but still convey its simple beauty.  As I was taking these photographs, I saw the colorful variety of the flowers, the abstract shape of the tree, the bright green color of the bushes, and the way the bugs crawled on the ground surrounding the swing.  It occurred to me that even the most simplest of scenes can be the most stunning.