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Continuing my early morning walk, wrecked cars stacked ready for recycling. There's a wire fence around the compound so I had to use a wide aperture to throw the fence out of focus.
A few days after I made this stack I received an email from Lancaster University asking me if I would enter something for their 'Experimentality' exhibition. They had asked me several weeks before that but I couldn't think of anything that would fit the theme and so I put it to the back of my mind.
This latest email came within a couple of days of the closing date and when I thought about it I reckoned the stills from this video would fit the experimentality theme as I realised that I hadn't witnessed or tried to witness the demise or collapse of a sculpture in such a way before.
So I took the ten stills that make up this timelapse and made them into a single picture, entered it and was very pleased to be chosen. (I am saving the actual picture for an upcoming book as it looks quite cool).
Quite a bit of luck was involved in capturing the stills for that video. I had not planned it and just gave it a go not expecting very much at all. The results were quite good
and now the exhibition has finished, the gallery has given me the printed picture and I have spent some time looking at it. I like the sculptural quality of each shot as it moves from its equlibrium point and gradually collapses from frame to frame (although this all happens in less than a second).
And so this accident of discovery spurred me on to get out there today and try again. Another thing I often find with my art is my first go is the best and that is why I rarely repeat the same sculpture but move onto something new. My first try always looks more fresh to me and so it was with these new attempts at playing with gravity. The pebbles on top of the pagoda stack all balanced the first time quite easily. In that incarnation they also looked the most symmetrical and elegant. Yet when I tried to knock it over I only succeeded in knocking the top off (as shown in this timelapse) and had to rebuild the balanced pebbles at the top. And this took a frustrating age... You may notice that single shot of each sculpture is different to the timelapses or composites and that is because I got each one 'right' first time but had to rebuild them again to collapse them, but each rebuild did not have the form of the original.
Why does it come so easily the first time only for it to be painfully difficult the second? I have experienced this so many times but cannot write it off as coincidental.
I tried several more stacks and attempted to capture each demise. A couple of times the wind beat me to it but after learning how best to collapse and capture each stack it left me bemused how the collapse of the temple stack was so perfectly captured and yet I didn't know what I was after and didn't try to do anything in a particular way. I call it the art of slack or following the line of least resistance. When I try to achieve something I often fail, when I just do without expectation I am often much more successful. Why? I don't know, but it seems to work for me.
You might think the second frame is the same as the first, but if you look closely you will see that the shadow of the thrown stone is coming in from the left.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset as a hail shower moves away.
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The spooky top floor of the stacks in the state library. I don't think anybody goes up there because the lights are always off. It's only dimly lit through the floor because all the floors in the stacks are made of translucent glass. It's sorta like an abandoned library or something.
I think if I keep going up there, I'll run into the scary librarian ghost from Ghostbusters. That lady always scared the friggin' crap out of me. Shhhhh!
Some thick encyclopedias stacked together on top of each other against a very intense red background. The books have different sizes and most of them have black hardcovers. They are casting a soft shadow behind them.
Couldn't resist.. Had to see how the last two looked like as one. Apart from the interrupted star-trails (which are barely noticeable) I think I prefer this one to the originals.
First thing I thought of when I saw that this week's theme was stacked! Big thanks to my yoga buddies for helping out :0)
Focus stack-images taken with Fuji GFX 50s on Cambo Actus view camera with Rodenstock 105mm lens at f5_6 ISO 100 2.6 sec with tilt up 9 degrees.
Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
January Challenge
I'm not sure if the background is Kona snow... but it was the only white I had!
First attempt at photo stacking, this ones 16 individual shots using the 100mm L is usm macro lens with MT24 ex twin lite flash.
As it's raining why not practice new techniques.
I've been bad with Flickr. Really bad. I finally saw some amazing photos posted by friends from 9 (!) months ago! #shite #Isuck. I've been bad about posting too. So here's something from a roll just developed after being in my camera for 3(+) years.
These (among many hundred more) were stacked up in Canterbury Cathedral. I think the colour in the chrome is coming from the light from the stained glass.
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MY FAVOURITE OF MARCH 2008.
This is in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. I had spent a long time taking pictures of the huge interior of the cathedral when I spotted these piles of chairs. I could see the stained glass reflected in the chrome legs and I liked the repeating patterns. All I can say is if it were not for VR, this picture would not have come out.
The December sun was just low enough around midday cast the shadow from the chimneys on the other side of Trinity Street in Cambridge onto thiis chimney stack.
Captured with a Nikon 28mm f/2.8 AI-S lens at its closest focus distance of just 7 inches and wide-open aperture. DOF was so thin (see this also) that I focus stacked three photos into one.