Deanna Spragg's final post

A lot has changed since COVID-19; before I found myself completing work way in advanced and now, I have zero to little motivation causing me to finish work on a need to basis. I have found that the things I tend to photograph has not really changed but the way I photograph them has. I tend to photograph things outdoors and just nature itself. I am particularly drawn to bodies of water and planned on photographing my hometown in day and night-time scenes this semester to continue with something I was working on at the end of last semester. This plan slightly changed during this time as I could not really go out to the places I wanted to photograph so I took photos of random things I found on the walks I took with my dog that caught my eye. I also wanted to use my film camera more but due to the fact that I had no way of developing and scanning my film I had to switch over to making pictures with my phone which is not the best but worked. I did try my hand at indoor and night photography which is something I do not tend to do but want to do more of. This is the first time I really used color in my photography or even my art for that matter and that was hard to get used to even before COVID-19. I found myself learning to see colors in different ways as the semester went on. During this pandemic I found it hard to come up with inspiration and make the space I am constantly in seem interesting. Also, learning to color correct and not having the perfect tools to do so was fairly difficult. I think what I can take away from this experience is that you can make anything interesting you just may need to shift your perspective a bit. Also, motivation when you are not able to leave your house is hard to come by, so you have to find what inspires you to make your work. I believe that everything happens for a reason and perhaps the reason for COVID-19 is to help us learn to see the world with a different perspective. Our world is delicate and does not need us in it to survive and I feel that this pandemic may show people that. I think this will help shape my photography in the future and I will lean more towards photographing in a way to express awareness and love for our planet. This has definitely been a weird end to the semester and was not one I was expecting to have. Despite this I tried to make the most of the situation; there were good days and bad days but in the end I learned a lot. i found that when "learning to love you prison" you have to put all the nonsense aside and focus on you, your art, and what you wish to say with it.

Bellow are 15 images I created throughout this semester that I feel are my strongest. The images are in no particular order but I tried to group them in a way in which they made sense.