Season Brief

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I'll so give Wordpress a go for my next modules! *Rant over*]

Our next Professional Frameworks brief was to do with seasons. The class was divided into 3 groups, and each group was given a season (summer not being one of them).

Given we're in Autumn, both Winter and Spring thought they had a much harder challenge in front of them, but to be honest I liked not having Autumn as my season because it made me think harder of ways to express the season instead of just going out and shooting whatever is there.

As much as I like the suspense, my season was Winter. I decided to experiment with ice using a (you guessed it) Macro lens.

I went out and bought some "ingredients" for my fun shoot: ice trays, food colouring, glitter and oil paint.

The results are as follows:

I really like how some of the photos look rather gruesome. Others, yummy.

I wish glitter was edible.

In fact I got quite carried away with all the glitter (maybe working for Swarovski made sparkly things grow on me).

I added squirty cream to the mix thinking of its similarity to snow.

Just as interesting as the ice, was the "left over". The ink of the melted ice created some interesting visuals, especially after pouring it down the sink, leaving some fascinating patterns on the plate.

We had to show five photos to the class in a feedback session, and on my next post I'll show the ones I chose.