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Covered the area with pins on my photogram with actual pins and photographed the results. I liked how they could be made to appear quite differently to their real physicality based on the angles and lighting in which they were photographed.

Photograms made in the dark room earlier, I tried to keep them consistent with my existing theme.

Took a trip to a scrapyard today to examine the effects of time on disused and scrapped vehicles. I was particularly interested in how the jumble of wires and components formed a sort of abstract composition. I also found it interesting how grass, moss and plant life had begun to grown amongst the decaying metal. I would like to further explore rust and natural growth as an element of the natural effect of time on man-made objects.

Some detail shots from stairs photoshoot.

Some shots of the stairs this Tuesday. We were asked to focus on composition and narrative.

Strangelands

For our first year photography discipline, the theme we've been given is "strangelands".

What I would like to look at is the effect of time and perspective on what we perceive as "strange". Strangeness is the antithesis of things we consider normal, which is relative to both time (how much of it we have spent in the world, and how much the passage of time affects the external world) and the lens through which we view these things.

To this end, I would like to examine the effects of time on commonplace, mundane sights (e.g. erosion on walls, urban decay, plant growth over man-made structures, etc) and document them in ways that make them appear abstract or otherworldly in an attempt to convey how they have been changed by the passage of time and made strange.

To contrast this, I would also like to examine things that have not yet been affected by the passage of time, and show how our perspective can make these sights appear equally unusual.

I'm hoping that, from these initial ideas, and through experimenting with a variety of techniques I can adequately convey these premises.