The Beauty in Fire

I know nature is something that shouldn't be destroyed but when I see this type of weed I can't help myself but set them on fire.  
It took me a few attempts to get a quality image of this tiny fire ball but I finally managed it and I think its a bit amazing how the fire is still in the process of spreading through the seeds of the weed. And what surprises me more is that I took this with a iPhone camera.

This is a old photo I took while walking around Fishmoor Reservoir in 2012, waiting to meet friends at Starbucks for a brew. 

Incy Wincy Spider

Just found this old photo I took back in spring/summer 2010. 

I was photographing nature around the area I live and just as I focused on this particular daffodil this tiny spider climbed on the the petal. Not going to lie, I did give a tiny scream because I am truly terrified of spiders and it looked a lot bigger on my camera screen then it was in real life. 

Anyway I think I must of scared the poor guy because he didn't make a single movement for about 30 seconds and I managed to compose myself and get this shot of him before he crawled away. 

Even though I am scared stupid of spiders, this still has to be one of my favourite photographs I have ever taken, the quality could be better and the exposure isn't quite right but there is something about this photo that I just love, maybe its because it is untouched by man, just pure nature. 

Inspired Design

n this brief I was given the image of a chandelier and after my research and technique experiment I've started designing and these are just a few.

 To create the patterned background I painted the page with black ink before drizzling with thick bleach for my designs to be layered on top. 

What do you think?

Dropping by Alberto Seveso

In my last photography evening class we experimented with dropping ink into water and attempting to photograph the outcomes.

After wards I decided to have a look if any photographers had captured anything similar to our class and I came across Alberto Seveso. Instead of dropping ink into water he drops ink into oil. Due to different consistency of the fluids they don't mixed together like ink and water meaning that the inks almost sculpt themselves as they float in the oil.

When I first saw the images I thought that it was sculpted play-doh rather than ink because of the more compressed quality compared to my results. the oil seems to work much better compared to water. However water is free and for a student free is always the better option.

"Dropping, is the natural evolving of my previous projects using ink and water. This time I tried something different using the oil instead the water and the outcome was amazing! The title is very important to me, because it is a tribute to the master of the dripping technique, Jackson Pollock. I always was a big fan of the chaos theory."

Atton Conrad O’murchadha

Atton Conrad O’murchadha is a London based Advertising and art photographer who has produced these amazing pieces of photography artwork for Futures Light’ story in 125 Magazine. 

In this project he painted dresses onto models using the light drawing/painting technique. 

He has almost created different brush strokes in his work to create truly unique a new idea of fashion and photography. 

Images off http://attonconrad.com

Light painting technique taken to a different level

Using the light drawing/painting technique I shot these images and they are seriously creepy. 

The images of almost painful, distorted poses layered on top of each other give a possessed feel to my subject. You wouldn't think he was laughing the whole way through the photo shoot. 

Ink and water

During in my photography night class we captured what happens when coloured ink is dropped into water, these are a few of my images. 

I tried using different objects to hold my water and different thickness of ink. Seems to be the bigger container the better (also easier to photograph) and the thicker the ink the longer it it holds together however it looses the the smoky quality the thinner ink has.