Color Changes

I think these colors really reflect my change in attitude and personality in the past four years. The first photo I took in 2004, when I first got a digital camera. The second photo, I took a few days ago in my apartment. Both of them are photos that I still like, and I feel like they carry through the same sort of photographic idea or style -- photos of still objects interacting, whether separated or together. The colors from the first one are bright with lots of contrast. At the time, I lived in Florida. All the lighting in that photo was natural, direct from the window in my room. The colors of those objects all remind me of Florida too. The light browns remind me of sand and palm trees, and the bright blue reminds me of the summer sky and the beautiful beaches where I was born. I was fifteen when I took that picture. 

The later picture's colors really reflect where I live now though. The colors are a little darker and more industrial. Purple, blue, teal, and a light neutral color all come together to give a calm yet unexpectedly exciting feeling to the picture. The colors work together in ways you would not expect. I think this is a real reflection of where I am right now. Moving here from Florida was not something I wanted to do, but as I've lived here, good things have happened. I never used to like any of those colors, especially the purple and teal, yet now, as I've matured, they've come to really fit into my life. As I've gotten older, I've experimented a lot and moved away from the bright, more simple colors that I used to be drawn to (like in the first photo), and am now trying to put colors that I would not expect together to see what happens.