Printed today! Fantail NZ stamp print from the 1935 Pictorial issue. This stamp comes from my great grandfather RJG Collins’ collection which was passed down to my mum. I have a series of these on my website.
Shooting and then printing these stamps takes so much attention to detail they really pushed me forward technically. I started them around 2010 and I had never shot large format before so I went in to rent the kit and the guy there asked what I was planning. He told me it was a silly idea and I’d be better off shooting on 35mm. Doing macro of something so small on the large format 4x5” needs huge bellows extension which causes diffraction, loss of sharpness and then there is reciprocity failure making the exposures very long. On top of that the dark shadow has to be just right and because I’m printing the film rebate everything has to line up with the negative and the film holder in the camera, the whole thing is a pain.
Claire was quality control on these as I was making them and so many times I would come back from a day printing and Claire would give it to me straight. The shadow wasn’t black enough or the paper was too grey or it was slightly out of line. I was too caught up in the process to see this stuff, I thought they were great but really they weren’t. Only a few prints would make it through.. Thank you @claiream for always telling it like it is
Me with a hand print of Themeda triandra in the show “Parking” curated by Anita King
Along with projected images of endemic grasses.
Corey McGregor @damnmoroda composed the beautiful soundscape “Little Water” to accompany the work.
To take grasses, something as seemingly everyday and spend time with them, willing them to shine in front of the camera. That was the joy.
I am left thinking that all parts of our natural world, no matter how humble or grand, have this ability to call to us.
Really grateful to @anita.c.king for including my work in this project
Very large But for the Wisdom
Blossom #42
150 x 125 cm
Apple blossom shot in our old village of Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex
📷 @alexanderjamesphoto
Before the Storm
155 x 122 cm
C-type
This print is hanging in the stunning lounge of @stephaniebarbamendoza
Taken just before a storm on the family farm of my wife @claiream in Walpa, Australia 2010
“The spark for my ongoing photographic series But For the Wisdom started in 2018, when I saw a verge on the side of a road overflowing with wild flowers. A few days later I went back and shot my first meadow.
Since then, I have set out to create a rush of images which I have taken in many different places around the world. There is freedom in the process - I don’t see the final composition until after it is developed but I love the sensory experience of viewing them later, a kind of constellation of flowers reverberating with an energy that is particular only to nature.” - But For The Wisdom by @caseymoore
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