Category: Photographing Everyday Objects

Black and White Photography

Black and white photography is timeless and where some of the most amazing images come from and shooting for black and white  makes you think outside your usual boundaries without having a color reference frame.
Black and white images can be artistic,  stark, evocative, atmospheric or  textural and can convey mood and form with strong contrasts of [...]

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Wednesday June 1st, 2011 in Photographing Everyday Objects | No Comments »

Photography With Something You Already Have in Your Cupboard

Looking  for something with strong contrast, massive lights and shades, wanting something that gives you strong abstract shapes and shadows ?  Wanting something that is freely available, constantly changeable but can also be constant enough for you to take a heap of shots without it moving off on you at the crucial moment of pressing [...]

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Wonderful Moss Garden – Natures Own Abstract Art

What do you all think of this as natures very own handiwork ?
This could almost have been duplicated in a tapestry or made into one of Kaffe Fassett’s tapestrys or  knitted works of art or painted into a giant artwork don’t you think ?
This macro image was one of a very small clump of moss [...]

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More Everyday Shots – A New Perspective

More shots from the ladder :) How everyday things can gain a new perspective

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Wee Eggs, ‘Blue Hawaii’ Moss pix

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“Web of Life – Cobwebs”

Photograph of a cobweb ( one of many !) in an old garden shed.
It was early morning when this was taken  and the light was just falling across the window and  starting to shine through and highlighted the cobweb.

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Flax Leaf – Macro shot

Macro shot of section of Flax Leaf – called Harakeke in NZ
See how a macro detailed image shows the variety of hues to the best advantage and cuts out distractions.  Now I could have edited out the rust “splotches” but I kind of like seeing nature warts and all and I think it adds to [...]

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Primitive Art – ‘Carved Head’

How cool is this ?  Just attended a horticulture course on soil and composition and this was part of the exercise to see how different soils would bind together and spotted this face that looked like an native carving – even the hair is there !
One of the other students created this “sculpture” from [...]

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Weird Screaming Skull Digital Photo

Took this photo as part of a series  I did from an old skull hanging on the fence at a place we stayed at  and was playing around with it when this weird “face” thing came up in front of me on the screen in the editing process  and was fascinated with it – it [...]

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Saturday June 5th, 2010 in Photographing Everyday Objects | 2 Comments »

Take a Closer Look – Feltmaking Session

These soap suds were left after a felt making session and I knew the soap suds would make some great shots. Try it out you will find all sorts of things jumping out from the soap suds – you don’t even need to make felt ! Some [...]

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