The image of the day is Delicate, an in-camera double exposure on film.
This image is part of my Photosynthesis exhibition opening tomorrow in Nantes, at La Lame Vernie Coffee in Trentemoult. It was shot during COVID semi-lockdown in Hong Kong, when both myself and Nelly (the model) had recently been through our stints of quarantine. That rough common experience brought us together creatively for a shoot I will always remember.
If you are in the Nantes / Pays de Loire area, I'd be very grateful for any amplification of the exhibition details.
Unlike Canned Heat (showing my age) it’s not bullfrogs but #woodlands that are currently on my mind. And feeling the need to respond to them creatively, and high on their phytoncides, here’s some #Origami#Trees made out of old #Geology#Maps superimposed with the occasional #Photo of the #Woods that inspired me. #DoubleExposure#Abstract
Image of the day is Spiky, an in-camera double exposure on film.
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Near me there are no cacti large enough that I can use them for textures. On a business trip to Berlin in March, I found a couple of hours to check the Botanical Garden and the desert glasshouse there had these amazing cacti. This is one of the images that came out of it.
More #AbstractPhotography with in-camera #doubleExposure (actually, triple in this case). I had a title in mind for it but unlike the last one, I'm going to withhold that in an effort to keep it abstract and let you see what you see without my interference. Please feel free to comment with your own title or reaction, I'd love to know what this evokes from you, if anything.
("Blah, this is stupid." or words to that effect would totally be acceptable, with no offense taken. 😁)
Image of the day is Introspection, an in-camera double exposure on film.
Back in the late fall, Louka and I worked on a Photosynthesis session that had a good number of successful "leaf" images. These are probably my favourite leaf images since I started doing them. It's still a fraught process, with frequent failures as I struggle to balance the exposures of the leaf and the model. But I'll be back at it, now that it's the spring and there are leaves to work with again.
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Image of the day is Equilibrium, an in-camera double-exposure on film.
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I have this jargon for Photosynthesis about the different types of images. This is what I call a "spine" where I shoot a plant with a strong central stem and then align that stem (as best I can) to the model's own spine. When they work they can be quite spectacular, but even a small shift ruins the effect. I'm really pleased with this one, the first in a long time that I find stunning (if I say so myself...)
Image of the (Wednes)day was Fanned Out, an in-camera double exposure on film.
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This is another image I really love that I never published before for no other reason that, at the time it was produced, I had other images to put forward. I love how the fanned out fingers seem to balance the lateral treetop technique that fans out the back of Margaux's head and back.
Image of the day is Chervilled, an in-camera double exposure on film.
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I don't know if that texture was actually chervil (I somehow doubt it, just growing randomly in a park) but whatever it is I love the delicate little branches. And they look like chervil. Anyway, they make for a great texture, as you can see here.
I have recently had a number of opportunities to shoot more images from my "one and more" project, multiple exposures of the same model. I'm quite pleased with this attempt. While I'm not getting the perfect curve of the backs that would make this truly special, I like the fact that the buttocks are only faintly in the image, leading the viewer to question what they are seeing.