Tuesday 28 February 2012

Some more sand

Just like the assignment on sidewalks from the first day of the workshop 'Making Contact', I have a lot of extra sandy photos that couldn't make part of the selection. You have to choose, right? This is basically done by the following criteria: the freshest moment and the moment when you were definitely stopped. That doesn't mean that the other photos were not good, they were maybe just not that strong enough. And I noticed quite some photos with other stuff on it than just sand. I'll show a few examples here below.
carrot shape in sand
carrot shape in sand
dog's footsteps in sand
dog's footsteps in sand
footstep in sand with shadow
footstep in sand with shadow 
hole and wood in sand
hole and wood in sand
hole in sand
hole in sand
little holes in sand
little holes in sand
pattern of truck tire in sand
pattern of truck tire in sand
red stone in sand
red stone in sand
squares in sand
squares in sand
pattern of tire prints in sand
pattern of tire prints in sand
waves in sand
waves in sand 
wooden poles in sand
wooden poles in sand

Monday 27 February 2012

Yellow street curbs and handrails

There were a lot of pictures that didn't make it to the top 10 in the past few days. Looking back at them there are a lot of wonderful pictures amongst them and I saw a theme from the first day: yellow street curbs, handrails and such.
chipped yellow street curb
chipped yellow street curb
faded yellow street curb
faded yellow street curb
round yellow street curb
round yellow street curb 
single yellow street curb
single yellow street curb
yellow triangle
yellow triangle
yellow handrail I
yellow handrail I
yellow handrail II
yellow handrail II
yellow handrail III
yellow handrail III
lego like yellow street curb
lego like yellow street curb
yellow street curb and foam
yellow street curb and foam
joining street curb pieces
joining street curb pieces
yellow table with glasses
yellow table with glasses

Sunday 26 February 2012

Contemplative workshop, day III: people and cars

On the third day we started photographing each other. There is nothing like behaving as paparazzi amongst friends. We walked around the room, looked at each other and then when we saw something that hit us we said: "Stop, don't move." And we took a picture. After that we 'released' the person.
fellow participant on iPhone
fellow participant on iPhone
man's forehead
man's forehead
my friend C. looking down
my friend C. looking down
our teacher's hair
our teacher's hair
R' hand on her waist
R' hand on her waist
The second assignment that day was to observe a car, observe it for half an hour and see what happened. Most of us got bored with the subject after a while, which was the whole point of the assignment. You then had to either give yourself a little rest or keep on looking until you saw something again. Very difficult, as the human spirit is sort of programmed to move on to something else when it's bored. Especially in this time of high speed internet and all the entertainments of social media.
double doors of a dirty car
double doors of a dirty car
side door mirror
side door mirror
tail light
tail light
After the assignments we could walk around in our own pace and direction. Here are two pictures of what I saw.
patterned moss in sidewalk
patterned moss in sidewalk 
piled up wood
piled up wood

Saturday 25 February 2012

Contemplative workshop, day II: sand

Day II was all about sand, the sandiness of sand, the qualities of sand. No story, nothing on the sand, just sand itself.
cracked sand
cracked sand
diagonal line in sand
diagonal line in sand
drops of sand
drops of sand
long fingers of sand
long fingers of sand
patterns in sand
patterns in sand
spiked sand
spiked sand
different colors of sand
different colors of sand
trees in sand
trees in sand
triangles in sand
triangles in sand

Friday 24 February 2012

Contemplative workshop, day I: sidewalk

Today was day I of the workshop level II Contemplative photography, 'Making Contact'. After relaxing 'this' (inside of you) you start to make contact with 'that' (outside of you). Meeting fully, before our thoughts and without afterthoughts, in the moment. We experienced the totality of 'that' instead of going into elements (color, texture, pattern in level I). 
On the first day of the workshop we met sidewalks, we were looking at the sidewalkness of sidewalks, the essence of sidewalks. See below some of the examples of Zandvoort aan Zee.
It was a very grey day, so not a lot of 'contrast' and no vibrant colors. Instead there were a lot of soft tones. 
sidewalk with pattern
sidewalk with pattern
steps in striped sidewalk
steps in striped sidewalk
grey street and sidewalk
street and sidewalk 
shapes in the street
shapes in the street
triangles in the street
triangles in the street 
triangles in sidewalk
triangles in sidewalk 
yellow street curb
long yellow street curb
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