#319 ASSIGNMENT: GABRIELLE MOTOLA #1
Gabrielle Motola sets her first of four assignments across the coming months and this initial one will have you reaching for a rather different piece of kit, one that will most likely be analogue and one which may even have you leave your camera behind! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge and will share the pictures (or indeed notes) you make for this challenge, 2000 pixels wide, or best quality out of a smartphone. to studio@photographydaily.show
For more inspiration, see the notes made by George Murray Levick, photographer to the explorer Robert Scott.
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BY JON KOLB
“This picture idea has been knocking around in my head since the hay was baled. These are fleeting thoughts as I drive the highway to work. The round bales are adding subject to what is usually a boring grass field (often overlooked for the mountains beyond). The color of them, (the bales) blend right back into the stocks they were cut from. Sun is to the west, looking west, they (bales) are missing shadows. If taken (the picture) in the morning, underexposed, wonder if the shadows would be near perfectly round? Black dots on a landscape, a void of information, abstract. On a round field (irrigated with a pivot) the bales would be laid out in an arch, with a wide-angle lens, the shadows might look like a moon phase map. Going from oval at the edges to round in the middle… My travels take me back through the valley at the end of the month. If the bales are still there and creative juices flowing, I will take the shot.”