Shadowy Abstracts

Photography is an art form that allows you to express yourself through the images you create.  While we tend to focus on light and how we use it to create images, we forget that the light is really nothing without the shadows.  The shadows are what define our subject.

The other day while cleaning up in my kitchen I noticed the shadows cast by a wine glass on the counter.  The bright sunlight pouring through the kitchen window created a shadowy abstract shape.

I decided to experiment with this observation by using different types of glasses and a white sheet of paper.  I found that by allowing the paper to curl upward toward the back, the shadows cast by the sunlight through the glasses created a series of distorted shadowy images, that seem to twist and turn depending on their placement.  The images presented here are examples of how light and shadows interact with each other within an image. 

All images shot using a Sony A7II camera using natural window light.                                       

 

Abstract Glue

The collage from the French "to glue" is the technique where artwork or a photograph is created from the assemblage of various images combined to make a new image.

Using Photoshop, I have taken some of my images from files and experimented with combining them using Layers to created a new abstract image.  I cannot give you a reason why I have chosen one group of images over another -except that at the time they seem to work together at telling some undefined story.  The images were created over a period of years at different times.  Maybe it is a peek into the bright and dark recesses of what resides within me?