My favorite pictures in this collection are "Buds" and "A Bud's Life". I took pictures of my earbuds because they represent my love of music and I also liked the way they could be taken. These earbuds are Apple "Ear Pods" that I bought about a year ago. I used the filter Color Halftones for "Buds". I think that this was the best filter to use for "Buds" because it gave my ear buds a retro look and the filter was weak enough to still make out the shape of my ear buds. I took both pictures indoors, near a window because it was raining outside. In "A Bud's Life" I used selective focus. Instead of focusing on the very first piece of the cord I focused in on the cords farther back to give the image depth. The biggest challenge I faced was trying to get the right entanglement of the ear buds. I tried shaking them around to try to tangle the ear buds but I never got the right entanglement. I ended up having to actually set up the tangle.