Bailey's Self-Portrait

Artist statement                                       Bailey Abben

            For my self-portrait I want to go for taking a picture in the woods or by a lake. The reason I want to take it there is because I like to hike, fish, swim, and all that stuff you would usually do while hiking or near a lake. I want to show in my portrait that I love to be in the woods. I am trying to show that because I think that has lots of detail with woods behind me because it could mean multiple things such as kayaking, being on a boat, and all that kinds of stuff. This picture is taking place where me, my dad, and sister go a lot for fishing in the summer. This is usually where me and my sister would go hiking while my dads fishing because after a while of me not catching anything my sister and I would get bored so we would go explore because there is a lot of woods and once you go down one trail there is three other ways you could go so its very easy to get lost. We also usually must be very careful because once you get out past a few trails you have no cell service, so we always had to stay within where dad could hear us yell or whatever just in case.

            We would go there a lot we also a few times went on a boat with family and we would just go, and fish and we would usually be out there for a while, so we would have to bring a lot of supplies. These supplies usually where the basics like sunscreen, bug spray, water, worms, lunch and a whole bunch of stuff.

            But the point out of this portrait I was trying to make was I love the wilderness and I love to spend time with my sister and my dad. I also love to fish because that has always been my dad, my sister and I hobbies that we would all do together case we all enjoyed it.                       

 We just couldn’t do it a lot this summer because my sister and dad worked all the time and the river was up high almost all summer, so we couldn’t get to it cause part of the road would flood if the water was high. So, as I said before I love spending time I thought if I took this portrait here it would be a good description and all of that for what I was going for and all of that.

           

     

Flash Fiction                                                          Bailey Abben

            For my self- portrait I want to go for taking a picture I the woods or by a lake. The reason I want to take it there is because I like to hike, and fish, and swim and all that stuff you would usually do while hiking or near like all of that. I want to show in my portrait that I love to be in the woods. I am trying to show that because I think that has a lot of details with woods behind me because it could mean multiple things such as even kayaking, being on a boat, canoeing, and all of that kinds of stuff. This picture is taking place where me, my dad, and sister go a lot for fishing in the summer. This is usually where me and my sister would go hiking while my dad is fishing because after a while of me not catching anything me and my sister would get bored so we would go explore because there is a lot of woods and once you go down one trail there is three other ways you could go so it’s very easy to get lost. We also usually have to be very careful because once you get out past a few trails because you have no bars on our phone’s so we always had to stay within where dad could hear us yell or whatever just to be safe.

            We would go there a lot we also a few times went on a boat with family and we would just go and fish and we would usually be out there for a while so we would have to bring a lot of supplies. These supplies usually where the basics like sunscreen, bug spray, water, worms, lunch and a whole bunch of stuff.

            But the point out of this portrait I was trying to make was I love the wilderness and I love to spend time with my sister and my dad. I also love to fish because that has always been me my dad and my sister’s hobby’s that we would all do together case we all enjoyed it.                   

 We just couldn’t do it a lot this summer because my sister and dad worked all the time and the river was up really high almost all summer so we couldn’t get to it cause part of the road would flood if the water was high, so as I said before I love spending time I thought if I took this portrait here it would be a good description and all of that for what I was going for and all of that.

                                                                                            Bailey Abben          

Reflection

            For my picture I am doing it on a bridge with water underneath. The bridge I am doing it on or by means a lot to me. I love to be able to take a picture for something that is really important not only for school but to me as well. Me and my dad are really close and I want to represent and be happy with my choice of area. I love to be able to share stories that are so important to me. This is the main reason I am taking this picture here because it was hard to think of something that is really important to me and be able to take a picture of it. So it took a lot of thinking because I am really close with a lot of my family on my dad’s side that is. I am having my cousin help me because she is good at taking pictures. I also wanted to do this picture where I did because it is very important because it represents a lot of the hobbies I like to do. Some of the hobbies I love doing are exploring, biking, swimming, and a few other ones. Whenever me and my sister and dad would go fishing there I would just get a little bored after a while so I would ask my dad If I could go explore he always said yes but there were a few times it was a little dark so he would make my sister go with me if she wanted to if she didn’t I wouldn’t go because I didn’t want her to be bored just so I could have fun. This picture has a lot of story behind it and so that is mainly how I chose what picture I was doing and where I was doing it so this picture is not only important to me but probably my dad as well.