Stars of Boston Common

The idea to take these photos arrived when I was walking around the Boston Common park and I saw a bunch of people taking photos of something last Friday. With a curious heart, I walked close and took a look—they are two copper frogs structures who are playing the music.

Though the frogs are cute, they didn’t invoke my desire to take the picture. What invoked me were the people that taking the photos. I sat on the chair beside these frogs and had seen different groups of people, they have the very happy smiles on their faces, that’s the thing that drew my attention. Because we had just done Moses’s assignment about the observation, the idea came up: Why don’t I take photos of the people who interact with these frogs?

So I sat on that chair (I had changed the chairs in different positions for couple times to gain different angles), taking the photos of the guys who were taking photos with the frogs or interacting with them.

There are two reasons I chose black and white as the main color. First, in person, I love the old movies with black and white, color can make people feel the sense of life, while black and white can make people feel story and relationship because it can make things clean and easy. Second, I am so unsatisfied with my phone’s camera, the color seems dirtier than my perspective and hard to change even to use photoshop.

I have taken many photos and picked eight of my favorite. I found they are more adorable after being printed in photos.

The old lady seems really enjoyed their performance.

Old friend, 12" x 4"

My shadow with the musicians, 2" x 3"

Gap breaker, 3" x 2"

 Skateboy's respect, 12" x 9"

  A close shot, 8" x 10"  

      

Hurry up! , 10" x 8"

Popular! , 10" x 8"

  

       Another photographer in the sky, 5" x 7"

Crazy fans, I forgot to print, 5" x 7"