Abstract

"DOWN down down"

This abstract image shows the inside of a slide at the Morse Street School playground. The intent was to find a way to make the setting as unrecognizable as possible. I went to the playground and walked around in the fresh April snow to find a piece of equipment that I could uniquely photograph. When I found the slide, I pretty much just stuck half my body in the small tube and took a few photos of the inside. I chose this image because it had the best lighting and angle on the slide.

The image uses depth, close up, and both high and low key lighting. I edited the photo to make the colors resemble that of a landscape of the grand canyon or a similar red-rock formation just because that's what the colors reminded me of when I first took the picture. Originally, I wanted the circles lining the slide to be centered in the frame, but I decided that the image was more interesting if they were offset.

This image is a unique perspective, but not entirely unfamiliar. To many who went to Morse Street, including me, this is a perspective that is a distant memory of going down that slide. The way the light wraps around the inside of the slide makes it abstract and hard to figure out what it is, but once you know what you're looking at, the memories of elementary school recess come back. If I were to change something about this image, I might try to put something at the bottom of the slide to make the light from the opening less harsh.