After we passed Dora’s Green we walked some country roads and public footpaths. Here’s another candidate image for my Ezra Pound haiku project.
Leaves on a wet black bough?
Tag: still life
Contrast: Green Leaves
These were seen only a few steps beyond the last post of cold, brown, frosty leaves.
Autumn
We walked west of the University campus for a little over 5 miles one frosty morning. The next few days’ posts will document that walk.
Autumn Leaf
Frosty Autumn Leaves
Another thing I’m enjoying here is that the Autumn leaves are not all raked up – I can drag my feet through piles of brown leaves like I did as a kid. And they’re jewel-like when frosted.
Polaroid?
I booked time in the studio to practice with my new (old) Pentax 645N II film camera. I didn’t really have anything important in mind to shoot but I wanted to get time playing with the lights and learning to use the camera. In order to test the exposures I was metering for, before shooting with the expensive film I shot with my digital camera, set to the same ISO, shutter speed, aperture and equivalent focal length. In olden times, a studio photographer might have shot a polaroid in the same way.
Autumn Haiku
The Yellow Rose near Tescos
In the photographer’s studio, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to photograph these yellow roses on a yellow table.
Shops and Leaves
Some will remember that I posted 2 pictures already of shopping trolleys and autumn leaves that I took in Farnham near the University. Then I came upon these in London walking around and I, well, I just had to shoot them.
Basil
I have previously posted pictures of this basil plant: it’s silhouette with frost behind, its shadow on the wall or the floor. Here is its reflection in the window in front of which it sits and a fairly straight picture of it in daylight.
Eiffelettes
All around the Eiffel Tower, the Trocadero, the Champ de Mars, and elsewhere too, no doubt, merchants offer statuettes of the famous tower in different sizes and colors, some with twinkling lights.
Tikkun Olam
One and Two Chairs
with apologies to Joseph Kossuth
Time Passing
Some of you will remember a post from a week or so ago of Autumn leaves and shopping carts glistening gold and silver in the late afternoon sun. I passed the site again on a gray, wet day. The light was cool, the leaves more brown and sodden, the shopping carts fewer and more abandoned looking. Another quick shot, capturing the passage of time.
Portrait Room Reflections
Part of a larger Family Ties exhibit in the reception hall gallery of the University, Caroline Molloy, programme director of Fine Art, Digital Art and Photography at University for the Creative Arts, was showing us around the exhibit. When we go to her contribution, The Portrait Rooms, I was distracted by the way the Autumn leaves outside were being reflected in the display case glass.
Haiku
I’m working on a haiku photo project. This might be a sketch for it.
Light Play
Farnham, UK
Just a pitcher sitting on a table in a classroom with the afternoon sun streaming in.
Systems
Among the subjects we’re studying in our Critical Perspectives class is something called variously Systems Thinking or Systems Art.
Passing out of the library one day I saw this half-completed jigsaw puzzle on a table and immediately thought, “systems”!
Weather-vane
Bird Bath
