The project for my online group in October was a bit of a challenge. The theme was 'an unimportant object, something that a burglar would probably leave behind but that to you is actually significant'. That in itself wasn't too hard. I chose a tiny snail shell, no bigger than my pinky fingernail. I find I am drawn to natural objects, so around the house I have a few small collections of water-smoothed pebbles gathered from various beaches, feathers I've picked up on my walks and some little shells like this one. Nothing of use to a burglar! I enjoyed the challenge of capturing the exquisite shell with my macro lens.
The second part of the brief was to render it in a manner inspired by a photographer called Ray Spence, whose work is definitely 'edgy'. (See HERE). (I can't say I really like much of it, but that's just a personal view and I do like that he is doing something different and thoughtful.) He often uses the wet plate collodion technique, an early photographic methodology. Thankfully we weren't expected to do that! But we were invited to use a square format, monochrome and to capture something of the spirit of that technique in our photos.
I don't know if I succeeded... I did have fun playing, using a texture layer and a border to try to achieve the right feel to the image.
I think you've succeeded admirably in drawing attention to the wonder of a tiny object. Any burglar visiting my house would also find plenty of stuff to leave behind - pine cones, sea shells, pebbles, feathers. Edward Weston was making art from mundane objects many decades ago; he did a very fine cabbage leaf I seem to remember.
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot, Jenny!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, this is definitely art. Happy Halloween, if you celebrate it.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderfully taken, Jenny.
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