For this assignment, we had a fifteen-minute window to take as many photos as possible which we thought would apply to a list of certain topics or ideas. Some of the topics seemed vague to me, which didn’t exactly help since those topics could be interpreted differently by different people. I understand that it was part of the assignment to interpret these subjects differently, but I still feel like it could be worded more clearly (e.g. “Take a picture that represents joy.”, and “Take a photo that makes an inanimate object feel alive.” )

Most of those images from the album were from Destiny 2, but the ones I feel most satisfied with are in the gallery next to this. The first four I was satisfied with (from Destiny 2, at least) are from the Last Wish raid – the first picture from when I was loading in, and then the three after that lead up to the first boss fight from the raid, Kalli the Corrupted. The one not from Destiny was the chocolate cake my sister made for my great-aunt’s 88th birthday, based on a recipe from my mom’s coworker when she worked at Monticello.

For this 2 star assignment, we had to create a Spubble, which is one photo but with a caption or thought bubble that represents something completely different from what the image suggests. I decided to have a serious face on for when I am focusing on something, yet my caption was related to my love of music and listening to something I really enjoyed – “This song is my jam to be honest.” I felt it pretty easy to get done, though I do not enjoy taking pictures of myself, which made it more annoying to do, for lack of a better word.

For my second visual assignment (worth 3.5 stars), I decided to make a fictional camp based on the game mode Gambit in Destiny 2, which came with the Forsaken expansion. I decided to go with this because it seems any time I load into a game of Gambit by myself, my teams is usually either really good and knows what they are doing, or has no idea what to do in the game mode.

I pictured the camp as a class to teach people tips and tricks about Gambit, as well as how to play the most effective part on your team, whether that is invading or blocking the other team from banking. I found the assignment fairly easy, since I just had to crop the background, add text to the image, and then border that text in black to make it visible against the dark background. The worst part about it was finding the background image of the Gambit logo.

For this three-star assignment, we were supposed to go to jointherealm.com and make our own coat of arms and house words for a fictional noble house, like from A Song of Ice and Fire, better known as Game of Thrones. However, I have designed heraldry on my own for campaign settings for Dungeons and Dragons, and I had several SVG files for charges stored on my laptop, as well as a color palette from wappenwiki, a wiki designed to explain heraldry.

I have made heraldry for the various campaign settings I have created for tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. Because of that, and because of what I knew about the Rule of Tincture, I felt like the assignment was incredibly easy. The actual blazon for this coat of arms would be “Azure, two chevrons or.”

Surrounding yourself with things that make you happy in your home are so important. It’s like your happy place. One hobby that I love is listening to music; so, I love this record player set up.

You learn something new everyday. I just learned this word! I spubbled (?) a picture of me posing in front of a picture my friend took on a hike.

Life can be hectic. We need to appreciate those moments when we feel most at peace.

I recently went to Nassau, Bahamas for the first time. I love the Caribbean and traveling in general, and I can honestly say this has been one of my favorite vacations. I took many pictures there, but I chose to make a collage of these five to represent my week.

After reading the prompt for this speech bubble, I immediately thought of this photo of me. I decided to make my speech bubble say “Did I really just dropped my croissant?” because I thought it was silly and fits with the sad expression I was making. In general, isn’t it always the worst when you drop your food?!

Once I picked the photo from my phone I transferred it to my computer and put it in a Word document. To make the speech bubble, I went to this site. I typed the saying and saved it as an PNG image instead of a GIF. Then, I opened it to the Word document and pasted the speech bubble on top my photo. To do this I had to click “Bring Forward” on the Picture Format settings panel. I saved the picture and done!