Final Porfolio - Summer

Making this selection is taking me so long. I am full of self-doubt. I must now just get on with it. I am not going for assessment so only my pride is hanging on this - no grades.

Summer beeches - love the light created by these majestic trees.

Waiting for harvest - this view from the Clappers could have been taken from a plane.


Storm clouds over Harlington - enough said about our summer!!

OCA: Landscape portfolio

Here are the three photographs I have selected for my portfolio to represent spring - winter is on a previous blog. Any constructive critisism gratefully received.

The robin

Bluebells

Tunnel of leaves

I hope that these photographs convey a graphic quality as well as illustrating the season.

Final Portfolio Selection

I am making my selection for the Landscape final portfolio. The brief is to select 12 photographs to depict the four seasons - three for each. You are told to "consider the way adjacent images inter-relate and variations in size, format, content and tone so as to vary pace and avoid repetition! However at the same time, "the theme and your style should unite the separate images" Although this seems simple enough I am having a real struggle making a selection. I guess my overall style is that I like to look for a graphic element, I hope that is enough. Here is my Winter selection so far. Any comment gratefull received.

Misty Hillside - the intersection of the hedgerows caught my attention here

Snowy Fields - the snow has brought out the lines of the hedges and I especially liked the graphic nature of the lines in the winter wheat.

Winter Beeches - here it is the strong verticals intercut by the horizanals - all emphasised by the snow.

Final Assignment next batch.

This is another group of photographs up for selection for my final assignment. They will probably have a bit of photoshop treatment here and there.

Human and natural graffiti in the limewash on this greenhouse.

Sunlight shining throught the limewash showing struts of greenhouse.

Perished pair of rubber gloves left in greenhouse over winter.

Final Assignment, next selection

Here are the next group of pictures I am considering for my final landscape assignment. They are all of netting used in gardening and the photographs are about light as well as the gardeners' struggle to protect their crops.

This black netting sparkled in the late afternoon sun making it look like a spiderweb covered with dew.

Here the CD hung on the netting as a bird scarer is reflecting the fruit.

This early morning view shows the netting layers and the garden beyond.

Here a fine mesh is draped over the crop giving a clouded view of the leaves.

In this final shot there are water droplets and dead leaves as well as the sunlight caught in the mesh.

Not photography

'Breathe'

'Sweet pea'
Here are a couple of pages from my art journal that I have been filling at a frantic rate. It is a dual exploration of different techniques and subjects coupled with me trying to free up my creativity. My work is usually rather 'straight', but inside there is definitely a mad artists trying to escape. I have given myself permission to do anything in my journal - even if at times it is rather juvenile, or like an angst ridden adolescent's diary. I am aiming to indulge myself, but I keep feeling I must justify myself - it is strange how difficult it is to let go and not worry about critisism. Now I can get back to selecting photographs for my assignment before the glue and paint beckon.

Assignment 5 - first selection.

Here are the first set of photographs up for consideration for my final assignment in the style of Fay Godwin. My theme is 'man's' constant battle to control nature and nature's fight back. Fay Godwins's photographs in Glassworks and Secret Lives are full of light so this is my aim too. This is a rather simplistic explanation, I will aim to add further with each posting.

The first set were taken round the greenhouse in the snow...the snow representing the force we cannot control.

I have posted this before. Here the morning sun was shining through the snow - the sun has tinted the snow almost giving it the appearance of fire.

This is a faded rag tucked into a greenhouse strut photographed through the frosted glass. The rag has been there for some time and has almost taken on a permanent form of creases. I particularly liked the diffused light seemingly making the cloth glow.

This one was taken from inside the greenhouse. The frost makes the surface of the glass appear scratched and the photograph unfocused. The whole thing takes on the appearance of a miniature abstract landscape...

More information on Fay Godwin here.