photography class – will garden for cake

for our second week of class, we were given the theme of life or death. not a very happy theme at first glance but surprisingly, an easy one to find images of. since we were allowed to interpret the theme as we wanted, the choices for shooting were plentiful. the trick was to find images that were interesting and eye catching.

for my photos, i decided to visit a cemetary. luckily for me, the nashville city cemetery was giving the annual living history tour. not only were there lots of interesting scenes to shoot, there were live actors portraying the dead and buried. if you haven’t gone on a living history tour, you should. the history of nashville is colorful, to say the least!

an actor portraying moses wetmore, an early developer of east nashville

my husband was fascinated with the mausoleums

vine on iron fencing

row of crypts

flower bed

this quote seems to sum it all up nicely

reflection on a crypt

the mausoleum reflecting the gravestones across from it

then of course, i headed to the garden. this is a great time of year to find life and death in the garden.

lichen on dead wood

same subject, monochrome

cicada wings

and in color-completely different results

and one that somehow did not make it onto my flash drive for class-sustaining life means certain death.

and our next theme is our choice-we have a list and i have yet to make my choice. stay tuned, i will post the photos.

for the last year, i have been taking classes at a local art college. it is all part of my effort to learn better techniques for taking photos of my work and of the garden. this last week, i headed back to class for a four week workshop on thematic photography. while it sounds a bit complicated, it isn’t. any professional photographer will tell you that most paid assignments have a theme. the object is to produce photos that define the theme without needing explanation. for our first assignment, we were given the theme of “americana” and i made an attempt to define it and capture it.

many of you know that i live in nashville. obviously, a fiddle and a bottle of kentucky bourbon should relay americana. unless you are a musician (or my daughter) and you know that is a viola…work with me people!