"Reflection in Pink" Jenna Lock-Arnold, iPhone 6s, 2021
This image was taken near my uncles cottage, looking out onto Lake Charlevoix. As this photo was taken after I had already had Digital Photography I, I was a bit more skilled in my photographing, and I think it shows in how well I got the colors in this photo, as well as the usage of the Rule of Thirds. It really brings out the pink glow cascading over the tops (or really bottoms) of the clouds, as well as making the lake look as if it's under a neon sign.
"Afterglow" Jenna Lock-Arnold, iPhone 6s, 2020
Much like the last image, this one was taken from the lakefront of my uncle's cottage. And like the last image, I didn't do any post-processing for this image. I really love how good the colors look in this one, how the deep blue of the sky melds into a almost greenish-blue on one side and a warm orange on the other, all under the wispy veils of clouds. The plume of the sun's glow just makes it even better, and I believe this was shot mere seconds after the sun set.
"Eye" Jenna Lock-Arnold, iPhone 6s, 2020
Like the last two, I took this image with no post-processing on Lake Charlevoix. I had to set the exposure all the way up to get the picture right, but I'm really glad I did. All the color of the sunset is stripped away by the darkness, only exposing a thin strip of water and clouds reflected by the sunlight. It gives this really ominous look to it that I just adore. You can even see the sun begin to be covered by the ground in front of it.
"Angelic" Jenna Lock-Arnold, iPhone 6s, 2019
At the end of my 8th grade year, my entire class took a 3 day field trip to Chicago. Back then, I wasn't as skilled in photography as I am now, but that didn't stop me from taking photos. I took photos like a madwoman, trying to document every single memory I could of those three days, and the most charitable thing I could call those off-angle, uncomposed, blundering wrecks is "candid memories" This was supposed to be one of those. I wanted to take a picture of the sun going behind the buildings in the background. I doubt I even saw the bird. I wasn't thinking about composition, how the layers of the foliage, the buildings, and the clouds complimented each other without interfering, or how the auto-exposure is set just right so that the sunshine doesn't overexpose the rest of the muted colors. The image was perfect, the composition was beautiful, and I had just stumbled into it. I had put in no work, felt no pain in the process, and yet it was perfect. A better metaphor for my childhood would be hard to come by.
"Old Black Train a-comin'" Jenna Lock-Arnold, iPhone 6s, 2021
Out of all my photos here, I feel this one has the most story behind it. I took this photo on March 5th, 2021, during the pandemic shutdown. Back then, I was working on a nature walk project for my science class, and I had just come out to myself as transgender. For some reason, I had decided that a project where we were to photograph natural changes and describe them was the perfect project to balloon into a reflective project focusing on my identity. This image was supposed to be a big turning point in the project. In the project's story, I was reflecting on my identity during the walk, gradually getting darker as it threatened and began to rain. After the rain was over, a seed of hopefulness was to emerge. This image represented the first turning point, when I realized it was about to rain literally and when the "rainy period" of the story began emotionally. Maybe I overshot my scope. Maybe I realized I wasn't ready to dump my deep emotional state onto my 10th grade Earth Science teacher. Or maybe I just lost motivation. But this project was never finished; Since then I've reached a better phase in my life, so it probably never will be finished. Despite this, this picture was just too good to let rot in my drive.