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Kat B
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Assignment: PCA16
Deadline: Sunday 10th February 08
Image Tag: pca16
From: The Tamed Shrew (Kate)
Mission:
Flowers. Yes, this is the week to show me how you can produce a flower picture in your own style and be pleased to hang it on your wall afterwards.
They brighten up our lives with their colour and form and can be used to convey messages of love, friendship, celebration or sympathy. They can fill a room with their scent or brighten up a dark corner and most of all, they are not boring!
I wonder why, when so many flower photos are taken, there are no stunning flower photographers or at least none I can bring to mind at the moment? Artists have excelled in flower paintings over hundreds of years, but I am pushed to name one professional photographer, whose work with flowers, I adore.
You are all artists in photography, with your own areas of style and skills. Using your preferences, think of the flower as simply a subject – and go to town!
Flowers can be represented as line drawings, colour abstracts, props in a portrait, high-key or low-key, in street photography, still life subjects or anywhere you want – the choice is yours.
If you need inspiration, the following links might help.
www.livingartsoriginals.com/infoflowerart.htm
www.xray-art.com/
Here you will see names such as Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol and also a wonderful series by Stephen Meyers on his x-ray flower pictures. My own style tends towards Georgia O’Keeffe’s geometrical forms and I shall look for inspiration in my florists’ windows for the shapes I want. I hope you will be able to do the same.
WIT
I bought some beautiful purple and white tulips that I had planned to take for the assignment, but a few things happened. First, flowers just aren't my thing, so I didn't get what I wanted from them. Then Tookie got involved, so I was going to post one with him and the flowers, but then I got this shot. I converted it to b&w to create the mood I wanted. I know the flowers are a small part of this scene, so I'm really excited that Kate made this assignment so open to individual interpretation. That dresser had a bit more detail in the shadows before I uploaded to Flickr. Not sure what happened.
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