Welcome to my Portfolio

Hi, my name is Brittney. I just graduated with a B.A. in psychology that focused on research. I am currently taking a gap year until I apply to gradute school for my P.hd. in developmental research. So, one day I can go into adoption research to help adoptees like me because I never got that chance. Anyways, if you are here you are here about my photography. I got my first camera when I was 16. I am 31 now. I had no clue about them. My parents signed me up for a photography summer class at the same college I just graduated from. My first day. I walk in with my camera and people go wow can I see that. I was so confused. To me it was an old weird hammy down. They told me that this camera was one of the best cameras to own. It was a Pentax k1000. I learned how to print my own film and use my camera. The teacher liked how I shot film. I didn’t just see something and point a camera. The first day we went out. I saw a sculpture. I went underneath it. and shot it from under. He and everyone else was surprised I would lay on the ground to get a shot. I learned that with cameras, you have to let the camera do its own thing. In 2015, my family became homeless because of my parents divorce, we got evicted. While we were packing, I found a Canon Powershot G9. I had sworn to never go digital but I had no place to print my film. So, I tried it out. I loved it. But I am still stuck in my ways. I may put the camera on certain settings but when I shoot I often let the camera decide. I don’t put in my opinion too much. I put my full trust into the camera. I have had one photo published in a journal.

I am starting this blog so people may glimpse my work and if you like it and want to purchase some of it just go to this link

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Insomniac Sunrise

Angles, Composition, and Discovering Abstract Beauty in the Strangest of Places

Taken in Wallkill, New York.

This was a pile of unused and thrown out materials. That I found to be fascinating. For one, rust is something that nature produces that I think is very beautiful, in a way it is like nature fighting back. Despite the fact that most would see this as a pile of rubbish, if you change your perspective, use angles and composition, this can be just as beautiful as a sunset. The way that these shapes form, the light and shadows within them, the rust, how you can use different angles and composition to create a completely different picture then what they really are. It is amazing.

Innovation at its finest: a rustic clothes hanger

Taken in Wallkill, New York.

Given that I 5″2, and I am not afraid to show my imperfect shots because they are all beautiful… this was a particularly challenging shoot.

Time and weathering…

Taken in Wallkill, New York.

The result of time, weathering and unkempt maintenance… somehow I prefer my buildings to show their history compared to being primpt and neat. I enjoy their character, their untold history, the stages of decay, a life of lives it must of have seen…

A Complete Fascination

Taken in Wallkill, New York.

I could not stop taking pictures of this pipe… something about it. I needed to learn more about it, it’s shape, it’s angles, the way the light hit it, the shadows, the way it looked against the snow… everything.