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Under the duress of procrastination I finally got 10 ‘shape’ pictures to Catherine for the Module 3 City and Guild exercise. The shape images were to be found in our own homes and gardens- no cruising the internet for excellent and inspirational photos for this exercise! My yard, things and photographic skills just don’t thrill me. Or so I thought. It turns out that looking, really looking, and opening my mind to what I see leads to even more seeing. (I thought I knew that.)
The fruit jar photo session was a good lesson. I hauled my beans and rice jars out of the cupboard thinking the form of the jars and various sizes would take care of one shape photo. My first background was white, way too harsh for the light, but I noticed interesting overlapping jar shadows playing out on the white background. I'll explore that later.
The beans have curiously perfect shapes and colours. DNA is an amazing 3D photocopier. It’s usually best when DNA doesn’t get too creative. Now the beans interest me and I decide to take a photo from above, I’m thinking circle shapes are good, so off come the ill fitting zinc lids and glass tops. Imagine preserving food in these things for families of 13 hungry farm boys. The thought of the absolute necessity of preserving such copious quantities of the harvest to sustain a large family overwhelms me. Now I notice the glass tops have interesting and varied regal crowns. Some lids have stars and other pattern embossed. So I decide to photograph the whole lot. The glass has subtle hues of greens and blues and clear with different size bubbles capturing the breath of the glass blower. Yuck.
The fruit jar photo session was a good lesson. I hauled my beans and rice jars out of the cupboard thinking the form of the jars and various sizes would take care of one shape photo. My first background was white, way too harsh for the light, but I noticed interesting overlapping jar shadows playing out on the white background. I'll explore that later.
The beans have curiously perfect shapes and colours. DNA is an amazing 3D photocopier. It’s usually best when DNA doesn’t get too creative. Now the beans interest me and I decide to take a photo from above, I’m thinking circle shapes are good, so off come the ill fitting zinc lids and glass tops. Imagine preserving food in these things for families of 13 hungry farm boys. The thought of the absolute necessity of preserving such copious quantities of the harvest to sustain a large family overwhelms me. Now I notice the glass tops have interesting and varied regal crowns. Some lids have stars and other pattern embossed. So I decide to photograph the whole lot. The glass has subtle hues of greens and blues and clear with different size bubbles capturing the breath of the glass blower. Yuck.
My dad collects fruit jars. He has all the more intensely coloured jars including at one point the much coveted brown ‘Pansy’. He would put them in the sunlight to bring out more colour. Coloured jars were distained by the farm wives of the day but coveted by collectors today. Now I realize I have a personal connection to these jars. So much for having nothing that interests me in my house.
Now on to the compost pile.
Now on to the compost pile.
