Snaps Photography and Arts

Snaps Photography and Arts A developing self-titled photographer. Available for commissions and shoots!

//what is victory when you spend your time in triumph hidden away from the world?/I went to the botanical gardens a coup...
05/28/2023

//what is victory when you spend your time in triumph hidden away from the world?

/I went to the botanical gardens a couple weeks back and I found this statue in its own little glass building and it really made me sad.
It’s an interpretation of the Roman goddess, Victory.

Maybe isolation is what she would want, but if you can’t celebrate your accomplishments and victory with the ones you love; did you really win?

This is also the first photo of taken that kinda scares me. It’s almost as if I don’t want to stare directly at her, and I think that says something about myself.

Am I scared to achieve my personal victories?

Things to consider and think about.

Have a nice holiday weekend yall🤘

//despite everything, it’s still you
05/21/2023

//despite everything, it’s still you

//All the words I’m still too afraid to tell myself are the ones I’ll scream to the world, because they deserve to be he...
05/16/2023

//All the words I’m still too afraid to tell myself are the ones I’ll scream to the world, because they deserve to be heard by someone

//“you can keep your hands warm with my coffee if that would help?”/kind of a tough week out here, physically and mental...
04/30/2023

//“you can keep your hands warm with my coffee if that would help?”

/kind of a tough week out here, physically and mentally.

Where do you put the words you refuse to say?

Back on the shelf with the other jars of regret and embarrassment you refuse to acknowledge?

Back into the cupboard where they can ferment and start to smell from the years of neglect?
So much that you have to rummage through all your pungent garbage and self loathing and doubt to find the one that’s been clogging your pores.

Throw away the microwave
Get rid of the oven
Give away all the plates and cups that we used to use together that just remind me of broken times I can’t get back.

I don’t want to have a dirty kitchen anymore but it’s hard to throw everything away.

“Get yourself together”

//an unheard tune/I’ve always been rather intrigued by this piece at the art museum, it’s a violin that’s been burnt and...
04/21/2023

//an unheard tune

/I’ve always been rather intrigued by this piece at the art museum, it’s a violin that’s been burnt and broken in a fire and they recovered as many pieces as they could of it. I don’t know why I’ve always been drawn to it but I always wonder what it could’ve sounded like.

Lately I can feel myself trying to recluse and hide away from the world and myself again. It’s really weird because I think I’ve been doing well and happy with everything I’ve been doing and making! But there’s always a nagging part in my brain

“You’re not who you think you are”

“How could you ever succeed like this?”

“You’re too broken to be that version of yourself anymore”

I know it’s just my anxieties and light self hatred talking but it definitely brings me down sometimes. I’m trying to embrace every part of myself, and this part of myself has been a hard place to reach across to

Maybe I am too broken to become who I want so badly to be?

I just want to hear my own sound before it’s impossible..

“Am I my biggest enemy?”

I don’t want to have any enemies. I want to work with everyone and have people prosper, in any context. I want to work with myself and prove those thoughts wrong.
I’ll pick up the pieces of myself as many times as it takes until I get to the place I want.

“Well where do you want to go, what are you going to do?”

That’s for me to figure out, and for you to watch.

Be fond of life, and it’s many opportunities, enjoy your day🪴

//the show must go on/more photos from my shoot with Siara a couple weeks ago! I really like the blur effect I was able ...
04/11/2023

//the show must go on

/more photos from my shoot with Siara a couple weeks ago! I really like the blur effect I was able to get on some of these and wanna play around more with that!
Always improving and wanting to learn more. The show must go on, solid words to live by I’d say🪴

//“How will I ever escape this labyrinth?”“My mind is no longer a prison, it’s my solace”/OMG IS THIS A MERCH DROP=0 Tec...
04/06/2023

//“How will I ever escape this labyrinth?”
“My mind is no longer a prison, it’s my solace”

/OMG IS THIS A MERCH DROP=0
Technically yes but honestly this was just a test run, this batch is mostly for the homies that help me get thru life.
Hmu if your interested in one tho, because if there’s a demand for more, then we might f**k around and find out aight?👀

I wanted to show off the shirts like with models and all but currently i only had myself to work with so enjoy my small self shoot trying to show them off!🤘(need to do self shoots more often)

So I drew up this lil head with swirls all around it when I was full on crazy for a bit(pandemic so it doesn’t count🤪) and it meant a lot to me, so I got it tattooed on myself shortly there after.

I’ve always felt like my head is a big maze that I can never escape. And I had been running from thoughts and ideas for so long that I didn’t know how to help myself mentally anymore. But one night i came to terms with me myself and I. I confronted the man in the mirror asked what was wrong and we talked it out, and I became a better person for it. That’s the night that hinged me to push myself in photography and life more.

So not only is this for the people that keep me sane and alive, but this is also for my younger dream.

You’re on the right path, enjoy the whole ride. Explore your horizons, and partake in some side missions! Keep it up kid

Enjoy the rest of your day y’all🤞🌱

//casual daydreamings/I went to the zoo and got to see the water tunnel they have for the larger sea life for the first ...
04/06/2023

//casual daydreamings

/I went to the zoo and got to see the water tunnel they have for the larger sea life for the first time! It was a super cool idea to let you be underneath the water with all the animals!

It reminded me of a childhood daydream I once had

I used to be obsessed with water when I was a kid, like could not get me to stop swimming. It definitely might’ve stemmed from another obsession I had at the time, the Loch Ness monster!

(I got to go to England/Scotland a few years back and finding Nessie while I was there was a priority bucket list item while there((didn’t find her sadly👎)))

So being there in the water tunnel I was just kinda awestruck for a second. Because like, how cool would it be to live underwater?? Terrifying forsure, but the thought of getting to explore everywhere underneath the surface sounds so dope to me.
Get to see all different kinds of wildlife you’d never normally see in their natural habitat
Experience all the colors of the ocean, all the different ranges of hues and highlights
Micro plastics and pollution are definitely a minus tho👎👎
See what history you could find through out
and MAYBE, JUST MAYBE.. find good ole Nessie herself=)

Ah, I’m rambling to the void yet again

Enjoy the rest of your day y’all

//the follow thru/this one’s a lil special to me cause I had been working on this for far longer then I should’ve. It’s ...
04/01/2023

//the follow thru

/this one’s a lil special to me cause I had been working on this for far longer then I should’ve. It’s an interpretation of the album cover Zaba by Glass Animals🤘
This is actually my first finished project that I made at all last year. Wasn’t in a very good headspace and I just wanted validation to myself that I can create things.

I had even been calling it my long term girlfriend for a while(which still makes me laugh) but I had to stop because of what that symbolized to me.

I kept getting sidetracked and not working on it for weeks at a time, maybe even months, and that made me feel a way about how I thought of significant others, their not just there for you just when you need them or get bored. They need you too, the awake til 2 am you, the off late from work but still wanna see you you, and I wasn’t doing that for this art piece.

But in all that I learned from it and recognize some problems I had/was making. It helped me grow, as I helped it grow as well.
Symmetrical growth, I’m quite pleased with it
Enjoy the rest of ya day🫶🏽

//cordial invitation/heyo! I got to meet up and hang out with Siara this last week and we got to shoot some colorful and...
03/29/2023

//cordial invitation

/heyo! I got to meet up and hang out with Siara this last week and we got to shoot some colorful and fun photos; along with going to an art museum! It’s one I haven’t been to before called the Foundry Art Centre, so it was really nice exploring around there. Plus you get to talk to some of the artist there while they work in front of you and you can buy some works off them and the whole nine yards!

Siara told me that she wants to be one in-house artists there one day and I can see her doing it honestly!
She sells really colorful and creative pieces, she’s got a poem book that I’ve been reading thru which is really interesting and creative to see how another person perceives different parts of life, and I hear she breathes fire occasionally=0
Go buy some arts yall, and have a nice day🤘

More photos of this shoot to come

//hey I remembered this year!!/shouting a big happy birthday to my boy Colin today! I’m very thankful for having a frien...
03/28/2023

//hey I remembered this year!!

/shouting a big happy birthday to my boy Colin today! I’m very thankful for having a friend group so solid that we stuck thru our teenage years and into adulthood together. It’s nice knowing we can all depend on eachother when we need, and this guys the one who corralled us together back in the day so thanks for help me find a place to belong bro🤘🤘🫶🏽

Anyway, here’s some of my fav shots of Colin I’ve gotten thru the years, plus my actual favorite photo us in our youth. We need to get to it and shoot some more soon yo! Have a good rest of ya mf day

//an artistic understanding /I think this is my favorite set I’ve done with Lexi so far, we’ve done quite a few at this ...
03/25/2023

//an artistic understanding

/I think this is my favorite set I’ve done with Lexi so far, we’ve done quite a few at this point but this one was super fun to shoot with her and edit!
We both met in highschool where we took a bunch of art classes together and got to be hella close friends, and it’s honestly been super cool to see both of our arts progress in different ways as we grow up and to be able to come in and help eachother do fun collabs and share ideas and such!

I’d say shes one of my artistic rivals (which feels very fun and cool to say) and only in the best of ways. Anytime I see her doing well it makes me excited for her and makes me want to be better myself as well. Seeing a homie giving their all makes me want to see what I can do and push myself in new ways to try my best and keep up

So shoutout to ya girl Lexi, go get tatted by her or a painting or have her paint you a door or somethin🤘

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