psych flowers

Scanned some flowers ~~~~~~~~~

There is something weirdly entrancing and beautiful about these images; perhaps the off kilter compositions or the fact that dried out petals, leaves,wilting hydrangea and roses (of which there are always a plenty hanging around in my mother's floristry studio) are given a new otherworldly lease of life through the spectral colours and psychedelic blurs. Must try with other materials as the background - wool, fabric, plastic, handmade papers...

wild blue

Scotland dayz 1 & 2

some things:
1. mega jealous of the fact that blue hydrangeas grow naturally up here
2. man scotland is good for my soul. space, mountains, huge expanses, picnics on empty beaches in the rain, random craft shops.........
3. i love beachcombing ~ found some pretty rad things so far
5. Ongoing scotland photography inspired by the likes of Gerhard Richter,  Sarah Walko, Stefan Hengst, Wolfgang Tillmans & Bernd and Hilla Becher
4. excuse the shitty photo here and there, i broke my beautiful slr a couple years back in cornwall (it was unwittingly sacrificed for my art a level project) & so had to get a replacement but it's nothing on my old one. man i miss manual focus hah. anyway, having a medium camera kinda forces you to look to the presentation and subject of your photograph more so than the aesthetics of it; hence my experimentation in composition.

high beach

Photographs from Epping Forest, 25th July 2012.

Billowy and bulbous trees with wood all layered, gnarled and peeling. Beautifully textural and organic.