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Back: Ryan, Tom, Lou, Steve, Jim, Westie, Emma, Anna, Kate
Middle: Iain, Marie, Rob, Gar, Dicky, Binnsy, Popsy, Mat
Front: Clare and Becky
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)
Date:
1879–80, cast 1910
Medium:
Bronze and marble
Here we were posed with a different problem; how to make something flat that already had depth, with the help of light.
I struggled a while with this, I definitely felt stuck in the shadows concept with this one as well.
Then I started asking myself the question, "How do we perceive depth?" At first, you think of a room being created by different lines that have an optical vanishing point. Now, to make this flat would be interesting, technically but I felt there would be a limited esthetic value in it.
I then got around to thinking that we also perceive depth by the use of movement. Something moving back and forth gives us this sense; there is a foreground, a middleground, and a background that is achieved in our view.
So, by the use of a longer exposure, I blurred the lines between all of these, therefore creating a more abstract image that, I feel, becomes "flat" (at least in a photographic sense) in its abstract nature.
More pictures will follow.
Yesterday I had a conversation with Hope Edelstein about privacy and the internet. She seemed surprised at one or two of the thoughts I shared.
I saw this sign through the window while Aryn and I ate breakfast at our hotel restaurant. I thought it worthy of a photograph.