Blog Research

Creating my own blog led me to look at other blogs of different scale and popularity. One of the first blogs I checked out was http://cupofpea.blogspot.com a small blog about a photographer called Rasmus Vasli, and his portraits he takes when he is walking the streets.

I think what interests me about this blog is in the approach he takes to taking the photograph, these are complete strangers but in the time it takes to shoot the photo he gets to know the person in front of the lense and then writes about this meeting on his blog in quite a intimite way.

 http://www.lenscratch.com/ is a well established blog offering daily posts, showing peoples work, exhibition reviews and interviews. down the right hand side of the page is a list of photographers that has been showcased on the blog and another list with other blogs and website which would give you more than enough viewing.

I spent a lot of time going through old posts on lenscratch looking for things that really caught my eye and thought was truely inspiring and worked with mainly the use of colour and light in the photo, I found myself being more and more drawn to work that was abstract rather than something like a portrait. One of the interesting things I found was a series of photos call "Revolutions" by Yvette Meltzer where she photographed laundry spinning in the washing machines. This work in my mind plays on colours to draw you in, the washing machine is almost like a frame to these different colours swirling around.

Other photos I found really unusual were of fire flys taken in japan, these long exposures are really unusual and a world away from the long exposures you normally see of cars and traffic. The scenery of the woods gives these photos a sense of a fairy tale and as if a journey is taking place. Photos originally from http://www.escapeintolife.com/showcase/dazzling-fireflies-display/ photographer unknown.