I’ve taken most of my photos out of inspiration from the surrounding nature of my recent weekend activities. Over the past year I’ve picked up mountain biking and through that I’ve grown a fondness for the forests around Seattle and the stories that lie within them. With my photography I try to capture action and motion within a singular frame, with this I strive to be able to tell a story through my photos. My final photo was taken in Port Angeles, at a place called dry hill. I’ve only visited dry hill a select few times but it holds a lot of value to me as one of my favorite places in Washington. Each time I visit it’s always a fun filled experience and a day I remember vividly. I wanted to capture part of the experience as best I could with this picture, this picture specifically showed me the importance of framing and lighting as I struggled to figure out which filters to use for contrast and which would be the best settings to use for prints. I took a lot of inspiration from a photographer I met while mountain biking, his work is stunning and it’s definitely a style that I took inspiration from as the picture he took of me really showed me an example of what I had wanted to capture through my months of very amateur phone photography. Youth in Focus has been a great experience and has brought me the opportunity to further pursue what I would like to capture with photography and although using and working with film can often be a frustrating process it’s all the more rewarding when you get that perfect effect you were looking for.