#huji snaps

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Photos from yesterday’s trip. Hujicam x Lightroom CC.

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Exploring Rome, Italy, February 2020 - days before the lockdown. 

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Elyu in Huji

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a collection of happy snaps :))

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Hot doggos

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Today’s travel

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San Juan Surf Resort and  San Juan Surf Shop, San Juan, La Union, March 2019

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“You are so beautiful--so fucking beautiful.” l.h x reader

“hey babe, can you take a picture of me really quick.” You hear from above where you were sitting.

“sure.” You smile and take Luke’s phone from his hand, “go stand against that wall.” You pull up the app huji and snap a photo of him. “You look so cute.” You say before noticing him looking at you and smiling like he does whenever he sees petunia doing something cute. “What?” You giggle.

“You are so  beautiful baby--so fucking beautiful.” He says as he admires every single detail of you. He takes a few steps toward you grabbing your waist and pulling you close to him. “I’m so in love with you Y/N.” He smiles and kisses your forehead. You blush and start to play with the collar of his silk shirt. “I just want to stay here with you all night.” He sighs and brushes a strand of hair away from your face.

“The fans are waiting for you.” You smile and take his hands in yours and kiss them. “Go give them a show they’ll never forget.” You say and kiss his lips. “I’ll be out there in the crowd cheering you on.” You give him a smile and kiss him once more. “Go give it your all baby.”

You and Luke part ways before the show starts and you go find your spot in the crowd with Liz and Crystal. You sing along just as passionately as all of the fans  in the arena. You and Luke lock eyes and he mouths ‘I love you’ to you during Valentine.

After the show you make your way to the dressing room and wait for Luke there. You scroll through instagram and like a few photos of the concert that fans are posting before you hear Luke enter the room. You put your phone on the table beside the couch you’re siting on and Luke lays down beside you with his head in your lap. “Hi baby.” You smile.

“God, I love what I do.” He sighs and smiles. “They make it so worth it.” He runs his hand through his hair and smiles.

“I’m sure they do. I see the way you are up there, you have so much passion in what you do. Not many people can say that they love being up there as much as they did when they started,” You say and lean down to kiss him, “They love you guys just as much as you love them.” You smile.

“Can I tell you a secret?” He says closing his eyes.

“hm?” you look down at him and hold his hand.

“you make me the happiest i’ve ever been. i love you so much Y/N”

“I love you too luke.”

A/N: hiii! I’m finally posting again! ive really been in a luke sort of mood and i love this photo it makes me swoooon. anyways I hope u guys like this!

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Societal Standards in a Social Media World

For my first blog post I want to speak to aestheticism, especially how it has shaped society and how I perceive photography at times, additionally how it manifests in my art. Now in a time where social media is so prevalent in how one identifies and individualizes amongst the many “ Accounts”.

Note: I will be using quotation marks for this post as a means to differentiate between “ Filters” instantly applied to through smartphone technology and filters, the individual lenses one can apply to one’s camera, and “Millennial terminology”. 

This revolution in cell phones has altered immensely since the 1990’s with the invention of the smartphone; where everything was instantaneous. I would consider this period of time, and up until now, instant gratification. I went from the owner of an Orange Verizon Envy, to a Blackberry Bold 9000 and then the trifecta, the iPhone 2. Each device died with stories attached and millions of images stored for a later day. My personal favorite was my iPhone 5, it got me through the last year of high school and sophomore year of Dean College. When I switched phones that school year, my friend Lauren had a hockey stick and purposed we shamed it up to relieve stress.  

What was left of that iPhone 5 was a reminder of how much smart phones had become another limb of our human. By having so many access in one hand, elements of the past was lost, though the camera industry was thriving exceedingly with the digital age, in my opinion, film might have started to become less of a mode to capture images and more as an aesthetic. One might argue differently, and I will agree now film has become easier to capture one’s natural beauty in modeling selections; that is a point that I will get to eventually. 

Digital is greatly consumed in our time with all devices we own as one human or household. Growing up all my baby photos were captured on a Nikon point-and-shoot film camera. Each image snapped went through the printing process and was printed twice. One for the album, and one for the boxes. In middle school, we had an album of CD-ROMs of all the photos we had taken over the years on our digital camera. The internet content at this time correlated highly with people editing and distorting images that were originally shot either DSLR or Digital. 

There became different layers to taking/editing photos in this age of digital with the instant gratification of having “Apps” immediately altering the image in the moment you snap it. Applications like VSCO, Huji, and other instantaneous filtered image “platforms” give the already desired aesthetic. The more I scroll through my instagram feed I am always tallying up the images where clearly it was taken on a smartphone and edited to look like film photography, or actual film photos that can be scanned for the ability to share online. 

With instant gratification, simplistically has been lost between capturing moments. Selfies are more common, group photos are a hassle, and Christmas card photos are sent online than through the mail. Recently I received in the mail from a high school friend, tangible photos of us throughout the years. It made me happy and I taped them to my wall of photography to admire. 

Society Standards change, how people consume the world is different, and how we photograph now is revolutionary, but deceitful. Film photography has shaped and inspired, and is continuously used by the modeling industry to rightfully capture the beauty of a human. Even if you took the photo on your smartphone, applied “ Grain” on the VSCO app, you are feeding into the achieved aesthetic that is film photography. Let’s say you go out of your way to get a simple 35mm camera to buy into the hype, you are taking away the instant gratification process, which actually gives you a moment to wonder, 

“ Just how much time and money will I have to add just to see these images?”

That is where consumption of money and societal status come into order and there is a reckoning within the smart age of photography. You can “ follow “ people on Instagram, VSCO, Tumblr and all other social media platforms where you see this aesthetic achievement unfold into what an individual wants to portray within this online world. 

You can take the person off the internet. You can remove the smartphones and online accounts, and hand them a camera. Film or not, what are they going to tell the world through their images? What aesthetic would they try to achieve? If anything, how would this change in capturing images alter there views of individualism?

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Reality v Instagram: did Taylor Swift’s ME! kill the kooky social media aesthetic?

With its pastel colours and fluffy clouds, Swift’s video feels out of step with the online shift back to reality

By Lauren Cochrane May 14, 2019

Nearly 10 years into a world with Instagram, its cutesy, kooky perfection is now a mainstream aesthetic. Take Taylor Swift’s ME! video, for example, which manages to pack in pastel colours, butterflies, cats, rainbows, fluffy emoji clouds, rainbows, mermaid dresses, unicorn horns, a lot of pink and the lyric “You can’t spell ‘awesome’ without ‘me’”. Like a long scrolling session, the effect is slightly queasy – and that’s even without the avocado on toast, #livingyourbestlife cliches.

It is also in Brie Larson’s Netflix series Unicorn Store, the notebook aisle of your local Paperchase and the walls of your average tween bedroom. This also means – sorry, TayTay – that it’s kind of over. “This is a sign of approval [of this type of Instagram aesthetic] by mainstream culture,” says Lev Manovich, author of Instagram and Contemporary Image. “But one of the biggest stars in the world is using it in their video – that might mean it’s reached its peak.”

Even ME!, the name of Swift’s song – perfect for a generation often accused of narcissism brought on by social media – may be slightly out of step. Manovich, who has studied Instagram since 2013, has recently observed that the selfie may be on its way out. “In 2013, ‘selfie’ was the word of the year,” he says. “This year, the selfie stage feels over. I have noticed young people are not pulling out their phone in restaurants so much any more. Every four years we have a new generation with different culture and different digital habits.”

Maddie Raedts, founder of the Influencer Marketing Agency (IMA), believes that perfection is no longer an Insta-goal. “Gen Z have seemingly had enough,” she says. “Many feel that these generic Instagram pictures are repetitive and not cool any more.” Which begs the question: what is cool? Moving on from the #livingmybestlife culture, there seems to be a kind of turning towards a semblance of reality, perhaps because with the real world in turmoil, a feed of fluffy clouds and kittens isn’t really reading the room. “Instagram used to be the place with no flaws and what we’re seeing now is that people are rejecting the curated Instagram feed,” says Raedts.

See the “Instagram vs Reality” trope that often appears online. Former Made in Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh recently posted an Instagram shot of her on holiday, walking through the waves, hair flowing. It was followed by “reality”: her running out of the waves, hair plastered to her face, bikini bottoms in wedgie position. Elsewhere, filters such as Kim Kardashian West’sfavourite Perfect365 are losing their shine in favour of effects to make your picture look, well, a bit crap. See Huji, designed to turn an iPhone snap into the dud with a red flash in the envelope of photos you got back from the chemist in 1998. Alan Bryant, who works at youth consultancy Livity, says something like Huji chimes with how young people are looking at all aspects of culture now. “Fashion trends link through to how people look on Instagram,” he says. “So the whole ugly fashion came through into the wider way that people are showing off their lives … Ugly is cool now, not polished.”

Even if it isn’t ugly, “real” is an aspiration. Naomi Shimada is an influencer and model with more than 74,000 followers and a book, Mixed Feelings, about her experience of Instagram out later in the year. Her feed is dotted with happy things such as smiles, flowers and rainbows but she is adamant that she has “never thought about a perfect image”. Instead, she says she concentrates on “the sharing of joy instead of the sharing of hate and competition”. “Aesthetics are changing,” she adds. “There is a point where you exhaust that route of perfection.” Shimada is particularly struck by the app’s impact on our IRL experience. “I travel and I see women by the beach. They’re not living their best life; they’re not swimming, reading or relaxing. They’re focusing on getting the shot.”

As the hyperreal cartoon world tips over from our Instagram feeds into the pop video, and with Instagram announcing in May that followers will be able to shop via the posts of alpha influencers, the next gen are resisting mega-trends such as Swift’s unicorns and rainbows and downsizing. According to Bryant, they might post something personal and insider with a specific aesthetic that appeals to a small group of people – up to 3,000 – rather than aiming for Jenner-level of likes. “That’s the positive of Instagram. You can go and find your niche and your community and you can fit in with them.” The latest way of spelling awesome? It’s in the post.

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In honor of my dear friends @la.fem.tamika @zackfurniss getting married today, here are some Spain snaps 🥰 so honored I get to be here documenting your long-awaited big day, it means the world to me to be here for you! 💕💕💕 • • #lookslikefilm #moodygrams #moody #girlswhotravel #travelgram #placesilove #adventuretime #letsgo #barcelona #spain #leixample #elraval #gothicquarter #museumtime #larambla #barca #vsco #vscocam #vscoedits #huji #hujicam #barcagirl #masterphotographers #museunacional #girona #gironaspain #selfiefriday (at Girona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkRWScESOwz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Guess who went on a book craze last night 🙋🙋🙋

Ahhh I really love YA books especially those that tackles death, suicide, mental health issues like anxiety, depression, or something to do with adapting to society and stuff like that. This will probably be my last book haul for the year. Bought 6 books in total in a span of 1 week and a half. I got home last night at around 1am but that didn’t stop me from reading a few pages from one of the books I bought. I’m currently reading The Beginning of Everything. 

Actually, I didn’t really check out what the book’s are all about or read reviews whether it’s a good one or not beforehand. I have been checking out nbs and fullybooked online for days and browsing pages to pages. I have actually reached both the last pages of the fiction category just to check out books. I’ve also signed up on Barnes and Nobles to order those books online that are no longer available here in the Philippines. Can’t wait to read more books!