After taking photographs of shells in a studio, I wanted to explore how their structure appears within the context of their natural environment, and how significant the role  of this particular objects structure plays within the other structures on the beach.  Instead of taking photographs of specifically shells, I broadened my search as to more types of structure, for example: sand, seaweed and rocks.  I wanted to take the opportunity to explore other structures  as by doing this, I could compare the structure of a rock to a shell say for example.  Initially, I was considering going for a black and white theme as I had previously looked at this in my earlier blog posts on Andreas Feininger and felt somewhat attached to that idea of maintaining that so we could compare the structures of these shells directly from the studio, straight onto the beach.  However as I was offering an alternative in the change of location, I wanted to emphasise this idea of an alternative shoot by choosing to stay in colour. By doing this I have presented how natural structure appears in its normal environment and I felt it necessary to keep this authenticity.  I believe my shoot was successful in terms of achieving the idea of authentic natural structure.  However I felt that it was hard to directly replicate of how some of the studio photographs were taken on a beach.

Best Images

I have selected these as my best images because I wanted to provide a sense of context aside from my artist inspirations as to how I feel about the structures found in the shells’ natural environment from my earlier blog posts.  This context tome shows the sheer range of structures found in this particular environment.  What strikes me personally, is how each element of an object makes up its structure, and with this how each object makes a bigger structure of say a rock or a mound of seaweed, and in turn creates a bigger structure which is the environment itself.  The sense of scale is huge, and for me shows how structure has no limitations, linking with the theme of abstraction in structure.  In some photographs I took my photograph incorporating this idea,  others I wanted to continue with my alternative shots to my studio based work.  I believe I have shown the structure successfully in each of my photographs, as I emphasized the focus on what role within nature each object plays.  For me this is of particular importance because there is such diversity within nature that wasn’t there when I was in the studio, and that I believe it is important to consider how each individual structure within a photograph is beautiful to itself in its own particular way.  This is another reason in which I chose to take photographs in color with bright sun light warming the colors.  In the past I have focused on the significance of structure in a potentially hostile and harsh environment.  However now I chose to explore slightly more of a romanticized approach to structure.  I have shown how each structure in this environment isn’t domineering but rather each structure works with other structures in a fairer, more approachable manner, using each other’s structure to create one bigger, main structure of the environment itself.  Therefore through this I believe I have captured the importance of structure as part of a wider and bigger structure.