While most girls her age spend their time painting their nails, shopping or joining cheer leading squads, Tanyaporn Prucksakorn has opted for a sport that is a little different, playing with a loaded pistol. The unusual choice of sport came from her father Chai. She had learned many sports such as Judo, basketball, swim-ming and boxing but it seems that she has no interest in those sports.

Her father introduced her to target shooting when she was 11 years old and trained really hard since then. Tanya turned out to be a great shot and because of her ability to hit the bull’s eye, she started en-tering competitions.

In no time she had taken home a series of medals and trophies. She had asked her father once that why could she not go out and play like other children hav-ing to practice everyday, after school from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.†in the weekends.

Her father gave Tanya one week break, within 3 days she got bored doing nothing. She thought it was a waste so at last she came back to practice again. When she was 13 years old, Tanya did not take long to establish herself as one of the few promising pistol shooters in the country.†She made it to the national team, coached by Australia’s Paul McCormack and helped carry the Thai flag in many overseas games. Most athletes do not have much to brag about academically, but not Tanya, now a 1st year collegian at the Chulalongkorn University. Her grade point average, which is above 3.00, clearly sug-gests that she can manage her time adequately, dealing with school and the shooting range.†However, her abili-ties until now is still in the first rank of the women’s target shooting sport.

Tanya

Aiming The image displays a half portrait of the shooter aiming to the target. The image focuses on her face showing her appearance with full equipments. While the gun in her hand is a bit blurred. This image also shows that she is still a collegian since she wears Chulalongkorn University Uniform.

Equipments This image demonstrates a set of shoot-ing equipment that she uses to practice ev-eryday includes of a 25m pistol, headphone, bullets, screw and focus patch. The composi-tion of this image is scatter, also most of the equipment are red so it contrasts with green background which the green mat pushes the equipment to standout.

Silhouette

A silhouette image of the shooter’s shadow with an aiming pose. This image portrays a good mood of the surrounding because of the cracked wall, it gives the texture to the shadow which made it looks more severely.

Determination The image demonstrates a silhouette part of her body and a gun showing the weapon that she uses contrasting with a bright green background. It is also a standing pose before she meditates to shoot the target.

Holes of target A close up shot of the shot target with depth of field. The image focus in the center especially where the bullet passed through. The shadow of the folding target in the background also highlight the focus in the center as well as the numbers that are lined leads the eyes to the center point.

Porous The image portrays a close up shot of a porous target pad. The big hole proves how hard the shooter practices before she becomes proficiently. In addition, the bullets passed through the same spot re-peatedly causes a hole justify that she is talented.

offguarded shooter A snapshot of the shooter portrait with her first trophy while she gaz-ing away. The background portrays her how she lives that it is not luxury and homely surrounding.

Pins of memory The close up image of different kind of pins. A pin collection of each nation the shooter had traveled to compete against. These pins from each country demonstrates that she had experiences be-cause it had more than 50 pins. With depth of field the image focus on foreground which is the Japan pin. Also in the Japan pin portrays a image of a samurai holding a gun which symbolize a gun shooter. These details demonstrates who she is.

Since young This image portrays a portrait of the young shoot-er that was printed in newspaper coated with a frame. Another portrait of a grow up woman with a smile at the back. A comparison of the past and present. In framed newspaper is Tanya 5 years ago while the woman at the back is Tanya nowadays. The topic of the newspa-per also tells an information about Tanya that she plays sport and a detail beside her picture which is her name.The image is a frame in frame picture that the frame of the newspaper divide the image into frame which made it focuses on both portrait.

Certified a close up image of her trophies. By using flash and focus on the very first trophy, it cre-ates a black background. With the depth of field the trophies start to be a blurry light in the background. In additional, the black background also contrast with th e gold trophies with its highlight so it makes the trophies standout.

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