Besty+the+Bug

I decided to take pictures of one of my favorite things: my car! In April of 2004 I was able to purchase my dream car…a blue Volkswagen New Beetle. Right away I named my car Betsy, and she has been a great companion for over 3 years.

I took my pictures with a Fujifilm S3100 (I have absolutely NO idea what that means!) I usually leave the picture-taking to my husband who is a graphic designer. But today I took the camera, and took some pictures I would like to share.

The first two pictures are a portrait front view of my car, and a landscape rear view of my car:



For the next picture, I wanted to zoom in on one of my favorite accessories: my flower taillights.

Even though I wasn't trying, I noticed my reflection showed up in the car, which was kind of cool!

I wanted a shot from the ground, but I couldn't quite figure out what I wanted. With some guidance from my husband, I ended up taking the picture lying on my stomach in the grass. I used the macro button on the camera to focus in on the grass, which left my car fuzzy in the background.

My next two pictures are centered around the (fake) flower I keep in the vase next to my steering wheel. I took one close up picture of the flower and an aerial view of the flower through my sunroof.

This next picture I didn't really like when I first took it, but after looking at it, I found it slightly humorous. This is a picture of Betsy, my Bug, spreading her wings and getting ready to fly away!

My last picture came as an inspiration from the picture of my taillight. This is a picture of my passenger side door, with my image reflected in the door.

I found this assignment extremely fun and fulfilling. It was fun to do this with my husband watching and putting in his two cents along the way. As a graphic designer, he sees things in a completely different way than I do. During this project I was able to see things from his perspective, and I think I was able to come up with some pretty good shots.

The most frustrating part was uploading GIMP to my computer and being able to download the pictures and work with them in GIMP. This is my first experience with that, but after using the software, I feel more comfortable with it.