Photographs on the beach · Tuesday June 12, 2007 by june
I was still not feeling 100% yesterday so we had a quiet morning. James was very tired after his weekend away so he had a sleep-in, Liz did some music practice, and I read a Dr Who novel This is the book that last week’s Dr Who (The Family of Blood) was based on.
In the afternoon we took the polaroid camera down to the beach. We bought the camera a while ago, from a car boot sale, when we were doing a photography project. Along with quite a few packs of out of date film from ebay (which was fine for what we wanted it for). Now the film is well out of date and the colours are changed – which is quite interesting – so we ended up with almost sepia photographs. Add that to the fact that we were photographing the beach, and it looks like we were taking pictures in a foreign country sometime in the 1960s.
The ‘brief’ was to frame the picture within the square. To make an interesting image – not to take a picture because it’s an interesting rock, crab, shell etc…
We took quite a few pictures of shadows and reflections.
We discovered quite early on that the photographs looked like a foreign country – or even a different planet (we’ve been watching a lot of Stargate DVDs) – so we started to exploit that. By Liz.
This photograph was looking at how the lines of wooden posts look different when you stand up to photograph them, or squat down, look up the row, or across the rows, or through several rows together. By James.
Anyway, we took lots of photographs. Liz enjoyed herself walking/running/splashing back through the channel, and got herself absolutely drenched (which is not unusual at all) and came back with a pocket full of stones and shells and sand. It was just the right place to spend a very hot afternoon.
