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FIN 245 Unit 1

Landscape and place

Field Truck

8×10 Black and white photograph. F11 – 12 seconds.
Dodged for 6 seconds around the truck.
Burned around the edges of photograph for 24 seconds using F11.

This photograph was captured during a drive on the back roads and trails in Black Creek, Vancouver Island. I came across this truck sitting in a field, left behind to waste away, in a wide open landscape full of grassy fields and surround by forest.

Hotel Boat

8×10 Black and White Photograph F16 – 12 seconds.
Burned edges for 24 seconds around the edge of the photograph using F16.

This photo is of an old boat that was once docked at the Sayward wharf full of life. Now it sits to rot away on the property of an old Hotel and Pub that was once the main gathering place in Sayward years ago. The build is now wasting away its self and is left unused.

Tractor Work

8×10 Black and White Photograph, double exposure. F7 – 10 seconds.
Dodged the top of the tractor’s tires, the hood of the tractor and the tires on the hill.
Burned for 9 seconds around the edge of the photograph using F7.

This is a double exposed photograph. The 1st photo captured is of an old tractor where my husband works, the 2nd photo captured was of my husband at the same location, working.

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Time To Think

8×10 Black and white Photograph, double exposure. F9.5 – 15 seconds.
Burned 20 seconds around the edges of photograph using F9.5.

This double exposed photograph was captured at Roberts Lake, located 40 km north of Campbell River. On my way home I often stop and visit this place on Lake captured in the photograph. So on one of my visits I decided to capture it’s beauty. There is reminiscence of what looks like it was once dock or tie up place. This is were I sit to either think or just gaze at the beautiful landscape. Using the timer on the camera I Captured myself sitting on the reminiscence of the old dock.

Buddha Break

8×10 Black and White Photograph, double exposure. F8 – 15 seconds.
Burned the Edges of the photograph for 25 seconds using F8.

This double exposed photograph was captured on the back-roads of Campbell River. Every time I am out on the back-roads for a drive, I drive by this same place captured in the photograph. On this day I had one of my sons with me and we decided to stop for a break at this place we call the ‘Buddha’. He was sitting on a log in front of the Buddha statue that has been there since the first time I passed by this place. He looked so calm and at peace, so I wanted to capture that emotion. I chose to double Expose this photograph trying to capture the emotions; of peace and being one with nature. The same way I felt watching my son as he just melted into the landscape.

Module 1 – Landscape & Place

Project Proposal– Landscape and Place

Every time I go on an adventure through nature. I could be walking through a trail, or driving down a dirt road, I always seem to come across something useful to people that humans have created, but then its just left behind to waste away. As I pass by these forgotten manufactured items left behind for nature to dispose of, I cant help myself but to stop and admire their beauty. Whether its natural or unnatural I always seem to think of its purpose, and wonder what it’s story is, the life it held. I would love to capture these beautiful unnatural object left behind in nature, using black and white photography. I am going to try and experiment with double exposures. I would like to play around with photographing nature and its foreign object, then exposing another photo of one of my family members within frame.

Research: Photographers Who inspire my project

George Digalakis – Photographer – Surreal Nature

George Digalakis is a Greek artist who lives and works as a medical doctor in Athens, Greece. He practices his art as a photographer and specializes in surreal nature. George specializes in the Fine arts of photography. He explores shades of black and white and is particularly a fan of long exposures within his photography. George captures the beauty of nature in a dreamlike state. His photographs are full of emotion and give you a sense of calmness in a lonely landscape. As an artist George feels a connection with the ocean and water, so he chooses to use water and the sky as his photographic canvas on which his subjects are the main focus. For example the way the lonely tree in each of photograph in his ‘The Shape of Trees’ series, have a sense of calmness with an uneasy feeling that takes you deeper into the photos. I felt like i was lost in a dream world while gazing at his surreal photographs. i felt the same feelings and sensations while being memorized looking into the photographs of The lonely bird in his ‘Birds of Paradise’ series and the lonely Rock in the ‘The Shape of Rocks’ series. Georges photographs inspire me to capture the beautiful landscapes i am surrounded by in the small town i live in, the village of Sayward, located on British Columbia’s beautiful Vancouver Island.
George Digalakis, ‘Land of the Rising Sun’, The Shape of Trees series, 90×90 cm.
George Digalakis, ‘Last Guardian’, The Shape of Trees series, 61×61 cm.
George Digalakis, ‘ Loneliness’, Bird of Paradise series, 90×90 cm.
George Digalakis, ‘The Crows’, Birds of Paradise series, 41×41 cm
George Digalakis, ‘Let There Be Rock’, A Piece of Rock series.
George Digalakis, ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, A Piece of Rock Series. This is a Great example of the use of the sky and water as a photographic canvas. where the focus is on the rocks as the subject. The sky and water connection is very bold and defined with a crispness to the horizon. Your eyes follow the direction of which the misty rocks are pointing in the foreground. They lead you to the main focus, the little lonely rock just below the horizon.

Ansel Adams – Landscape Photographer 1902- 1984

Ansel Adams with his assistant Alan Ross, a well known black and white photographer Alan Ross had accompanied him for 10 years throughout his photographic adventures.
Ansel Adams (photographer) ‘Road to Nowhere’
Ansel Adams, ‘Dusk’, Shadow Creek, California.