Assignment 1 Artist Statement

Jessica Selmser

In our project “The Real Florida” I would like to show Florida's inner forests, specifically I would like to shoot in Ocala, but since I couldn't get to Ocala I wanted to go with less traveled paths and waterways that gave the feeling of the inner Florida lands. I tried to focus these images on a small objects, rather than the whole of the landscape around it. I will be shot at Manatee State Park and Myaka State Park to achieve the “Ocala” feeling. I know that I went tilt/shift crazy but I enjoyed this contrast with these overgrown paths.