photography....

It's something that I hope to improve at!! I have a great SLR digital camera and up until recently had no idea how to really use it... but a very patient friend.. who is a fabulous photographer with a keen interest in birds taught me a few things! I am happy with the results and looking forward to having time to practice.... it's fun looking at the world through the eyes of a camera!

Down at the creek!

One of the assignments I had to undertake recently for the Fine Art and Visual Culture degree I am doing through Curtin University was to create some sort of geometric installation in an uncultured environment... and subsequently draw the results. I had a few ideas on this one... and after many failed attempts, I ended up down at the local creek... I thought the structred element of the drain my work alongside the natural bush environment. I discovered, to my dismay, a lot of rubbish had been dumped there. I decided to focus on the rubbish with the string as a kind of framework. ( it was impossible NOT to see it there anyway) The following are photos of the site... I will include the results with the drawing in the next post!

Looking through...

Sometimes obstacles get in the way for us seeing things as they truly are... I mean, small problems can hide the big picture.... today as I was at Ryde tafe and later in the city I saw many tangible examples of "looking through"... the resulting photographs are ambiguous... are we looking at the obstacle or what is behind? I like thinking about these kinds of compositions