Photoshoot 1 – Roses by Jenna Raine

Inspiration:

Birds are singin’
La-da-da, da-da-dee
Yesterday is dead to me
I feel the ground beneath my feet

When I say, ooh
Don’t go killin’ all my roses
‘Cause I’ve only started growin’
Ooh
Don’t go rain on my parade
I’m just tryna have a good, good day

Plan: I’m going to by some roses and get some photos in my dining room as it has some really nice natural light as there is a massive window. This will now have to be shot in the morning or early afternoon due to the early sunset. I would also like to experiment with different lighting techniques in the studio and create some more staged experimental pieces.

Photoshoot 2 – song for nobody by Thomas Merton

Inspiration:

A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.

A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a word
By itself.

Let no one touch this gentle sun
In whose dark eye
Someone is awake.

(No light, no gold, no name, no colour
And no thought:
O, wide awake!)

A golden heaven
Sings by itself
A song to nobody.

Plan: I’m going to by some daisies or other from of yellow flower and get some photos in my dining room as it has some really nice natural light as there is a massive window. This will now have to be shot in the early afternoon due to the early sunset. I would like to create some photos similar to Josef Seduks still life’s. I also would like to create some images that reflect the overall tone of the poem

Photoshoot 3 – withering lilies by Robert Leighton

Inspiration:

And must ye pass away,
Yellow waving lilies?
Greener grow the woodland alleys,
Greener, greener every day;
Summer’s coming up the valleys–
Yet ye will not stay!

I come at morn and even,
This green bank my cushion;
And I worship, in a fashion,
From the lilies up to Heaven:
God, accept my earnest passion,
Be it rudely given!

I bless the time of flowers,
And kneel with each new comer.
My heart’s a temple all the Summer,
Visited through all its hours,
Choir’d by every little hummer
Of the leafy bowers.

plan: I’m going to get some lilies and wait for them to wilt a bit before I take photos. I’m going to get images of the wilting process. I’m going to recreate images similar to Josef Sudek’s but at different times through out the day. I am also going to bring them into the studio in school and get some images that are more staged and play around with lighting techniques.

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Photoshoot 5 – To a vase of flowers by C. B. Langston

Inspiration:

Are they sighs of sorrow, my sweet flowers!
That with your fragrant breath you waft me up?
You never more will see day’s sunny hours,
But languish life away in that fair cup.

With loving, eager hand I snapt your stems,
With all their blossoms wet with dew of morn,
Nor deemed the trembling drops like flashing gems,
Were tears of silent grief that you were torn.

Sweet flowers!–ah, many maids there are like you,
Snatched from their native shades, that for a while
Drink deep of pleasure’s gilded cup, and rue
The false allurement of her fatal smile!

Then ’tis not due to me such incense sweet,
‘Twas I who caused your drooping forms to mourn,
Who thought your bright eyes glistened to entreat,
That I would bear your boughs my room t’ adorn.

Oh! you are like fair martyrs in your death,
Bowing your lovely heads to those who slay;
Returning good for ill, with latest breath,
And, with your souls serene, passing away.

vaseeee

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