We visited the old lighthouse and its museum where we learned about the fresnel and I took pictures from a number of angles, attempting to capture the colors passing through the prisms. We also visited the adjoining lighthouse keeper’s home and ascended the stairs and took a look out the window across the bay to San Diego.
Continue trying to get additional shots for Modern Romance. Only one of each setting can make the final – which will it be?
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Well, at least the lamp is straight in this one, but I look like a deer caught in the headlights and that shirt just has to go! The one below has a yellowish color cast to it and we’re the wrong size compared to the one above. Nothing yet ready to add to Modern Romance.
Another attempt at an extension of Modern Romance to New York. Not quite there.
Thought I would try my hand at some more images for Modern Romance, based here in New York, rather than Farnham. A Doctor’s office makes sense for an old couple, right? However, I don’t think it really works with the series, not to mention the color problems.
I continue with samples of images I rejected from my Urban Exoticism contest submission.
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Is this a liminal space? It’s definitely in-between (the street and the subway platform). The blacked-out former advertising hoardings give it an abandoned air.
The very last images from my time in Farnham, more views of the bright sunlight streaming into our apartment.
A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
As part of October Craft Month (Farnham is a World Craft Town) UCA hosted the Shaping Glass exhibition in the James Hockey Gallery in October, which I was lucky enough to see a little before it opened. Below are some quick snaps I took in the gallery.
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
During my hour of freedom in Brighton, we walked down to the Phoenix Art Space where some of my colleagues from Work Show Grow were exhibiting as part of Rethinking Eastern Europe. On another wall, I saw the set of images above, I am because you know me – A letter to womanhood. Note, it’s yet another exhibition where I found the opportunity to photograph myself in a mirror.
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
After our 6½-mile walk, we had lunch at a pub and proceeded through the Harnham Water Meadows (shown in previous posts) to the Salisbury Cathedral. Lots of postcard-type images inside the cathedral, below (click any of the images to see them full-sized – if you’re seeing this on the web, not in email).
In my Modern Romance project I have tried to show both the companionship and solitude of a long-term, aging couple. As I experiment with extending it, I thought of showing the couple pursuing individual pastimes. I’m not sure…
