Crit 3, 4, and 5

I've been very behind on my recipe's so I decided to bang them all out with this post, I hope that is ok :)

I decided to choose all the ones that had the most votes from Crit's 3, 4 and 5

This image is actually just a landscape just outside my family's home. They live in Bensalem so the area is very remote and the property is somewhat old so there are plenty of these types of trees there that I always found interesting. When I take shots like this I like to play around to see what the most interesting crop I can get is, and I also use the Black and White function in Photoshop to bump up the contrast. I used the same process for my Crit #4 photo which seemed to be the most popular. 

This image was taken along route to my apartment. Since taking this class - I made more of an effort to take long walks around the neighborhood to see if I could find any interesting shots. I was always drawn to this home and the pile of wood by the doorway -- I always thought there was something eerie and a bit old fashioned about the house. I wanted this to come across in the image so I attempted to capture it during the afternoon when I knew the shadows around it would be the strongest.

A lot of my images taken in Crit #5 were while visiting friends down in Eerie, PA. This image is of the Lake, and I was initially attracted to the color around this time of year. It was very stark and calm, and I sort of tried to give the bottom half an interesting texture by cropping a lot of the ground out and just focusing in on the ice forming around the lake.