IDEA POST: 2/25/2010 Thinking about my work

I just had my meeting with Paul yesterday and it is hard for me to think of other things but my project and how I am going to go about shooting. I have been thinking about the artists Paul told me about and how they manipulated landscapes in the way that they did. One photographed one location multiple time to capture all the blooms of a garden and put them all together in one landscape photograph that showed all the flowers in bloom at once. The other artist would photograph one location for several hours and composite chosen people and objects into one photograph. Both artist created these artificial landscapes.

I guess time is something that people will never be able to see, we know it is passing and we see things change but we never actually see time. I guess time is a lot like wind. We see clouds move and trees sway with each gust but we will never actually be able to see the wind.

This image is one of Scott mcfarland's where he took many photographs of one garden and showed everything at once all in full bloom/ growth.

For my project i am envisioning shooting an image of a tree, idealistically shoot in a perfect composition, with just a small subtle change, one portion or side of the tree will show a transformation from bare branches to buds starting to form leaves.
I also image shooting the ocean, and capturing many boats going by and showing many boats on the horizon at once.

I like how the artist I described above created imagery that was slightly off that makes the viewer wonder what is going on. That is how I want to effect my audience. Through the subtle clues i them to realize that I am showing time passing.