While writing the book, sorry creating the book, you come against all sort of short comings. The camera, the letter-fonds, the letter-colours, are giving me a challenge, which in a way are fantastic. A true part of an artistic process. Many pages in the book are now different again. On my way, walking while talking in my head (what will people think if i said it out loud) new ideas come to me. The poor camera has to deal with many impossible situations but some of the results are wonderful.
It can be really hard to create a background for a Poem
should it be a blur or just a colour
or something more recognisable will it take over the words will it become too much for the eye
so one site of the book that Photo the other site black on white or let the words dance in a none depicting photo to create a photographic experience inside the words
went out and about to reflect on just that taking photos of the place where most photos of the photo-page were taken
The #PhotographyIsArt gives some nice results with some great surprises. The idea that photography is more than a click of the finger is not new, it is as old as photography itself. Photography is more than just one moment, you can create that one moment. Take the time to find that one moment.
different moment
Experimenting with leafs to create a picture, like experimenting with paint. Putting a leaf on a glass plate sprayed with water. To play with light reflection by using aluminium foil under the glass plate. To create a picture, not a moment. All this experimenting came from the encounter of a drifting leaf in a pond.
the natural way
Seeing or maybe better a certain vision stands central in most artistic expression. Photography as art shows an artistic expression what you not always see. You create the photo not taking a photo. The camera does not create it, at times it shows you what our eyes don’t focus on. In this case the reflection of the skeleton leaf by not focussing on the leaf but on the water. The glass plate reflection will never become the same as the natural way, a different perspective of a found object. One found laying on the pond the other found, wherever, placed in position.
totally different
Sometimes you use the camera to create something more surreal, out of control, making without knowing what you are making. Looking at the result, not really knowing how it got that way. The above photo let you see something different inside a glass of water. Virtualisation of reality, making, creating abstract expression without aim.
leaf on paint
You never can predict what people like no matter the use of composition, colour, framing etc. etc.. At times people like something that makes you wonder. The above photo became the most populair photo from me on Twitter, why? perhaps that is the art of photography, you never know the exact outcome.
Roos Zwart 