I want to explore creating shadows with eggs so I’m going to try making a mould so that all my eggs are the same shape. Some of these real eggs have subtle textures which I love, I don’t know if I will be able to combine areas of texture from several eggs into my mould, I hope so. I think the moulds will be half-eggs, which will make it easier to create the shadow effects I want.
Tag: photography
Reclining Man
This guy got a lot of attention in Oxford on Christmas Eve. We worked out that he had a metal structure hidden inside his clothes with a long spike pushed down into the ground between the paving slabs.
A Frosty Winter Afternoon
All the countryside to the West of London was swathed in frost, colours reduced to a muted palette of greys and greens until the sun began to set and the sky began to flush as we passed Newport. Taking photos with a mobile phone is not ideal when the light is low and you’re travelling at speed and the train windows are dirty but I was still able to capture the mood of cold blurry landscapes. I also found something more abstract to enjoy, especially where the train lights and the phone itself are reflected in the train windows.
Tate Staircase Shadows
Again inspired by Ansel Adams photography, I looked back through my large collection of shadow photographs from the Tate Modern. I have made images of people’s shadows whilst they are walking up and down the stairs. I think these two in particular are interesting, just body parts, no colour, no identity, no gender, no nationality, not even any age, just soft fleeting recordings of movement.
Ansel Adams-inspired waterscapes
Having visited an exhibition today of original photographic prints by Ansel Adams, I felt inspired to re-visit some photographs I took in October at Niagra Falls. They were taken with a digital camera, I have now converted them to black and white and increased the contrast considerably. To paraphrase Ansel Adams “the negative is the score and the print is the performance” So in that spirit, these adjusted images are my performance.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
You must be logged in to post a comment.