Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Southland's churches
On the road (again) and heading for Laddy's house at Hedgehope to collect cuttings from his old, old orchard and on the way there and back I stopped to photograph the country churches I ordinarily pass. They were all closed, today being Tuesday, but I wandered around each, looking for an interesting angle, and here's what I found:
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Interesting angles indeed, plus very nice light and shade contrast.
Thanks Greg. Some times, the Southland landscape seem bleak and with very few 'features' that might look well as an image. I'm not a great one for vistas, so that leaves structures and little things and 'making something' of those is a matter of 'angle', I reckon. My wife says, looking at the photographs I'm taking now, that I've gone 'arty' but I think I'm heading mythological rather, if that makes any sense.
"Arty", "mythological", tis a fine line surely. I love the 2nd one down, shot between the branches...beautiful and scary at the same time, like something out of the "Exorcist".
That church was kinda creepy Suz. The bell tower could have come from a Hammer production but the church and it's yard had nothing on the surrounding farmland for causing disquiet. The herd homes and silage pits nearby gave me conniptions!
Arty is good. It tends to be used pejoratively when a subject or 'angle' seems self-indulgent or contrived, but that is so subjective as to not warrant the sleight.
I reckon 'arty' is synonymous with 'carefully considered and executed', no matter whether it's abstraction or realism. It describes the craft as opposed to the viewer's perception, I think.
Hey, that's very encouraging Greg!
Without those 'arty' images of your world, whether captured by camera or memory, can the world become mundane? I think so. We all seem to do it, one way or another, frame up our world in order to make it numinous. Everyone does it differently. Buying an All Black jersey is an example, though not one I choose :-)
"Conniptions"! Word of the Month..had to look it up and am determined to drop it in a conversation, although am sorry you experienced them, not to mention the poor cattle.
Thank you for caring Suz - rest assured, I'm on the road to recovery.
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