Brief 1 - Alphabet

Alphabet

What? :

Made from images taken from around Pwllheli. Could not find anything that looked like a Q, to make up for it I got an image of a question mark and quotation marks. Edited the images to be in black and white.

Why?:

Went out at night even though you cant see as much. The visual restriction and the deep shadows casted by streetlights allowed in theory for stronger contrasts and therefore stronger photography in black and white.

Reality?:

I think They turned out quite well for the most part. They're definitely interesting and a bit gimmicky. If I had to pull some lesson away from this it would be what type of objects look the best in my opinion as letters. I prefer the metal bars, the curves in architecture, a broken fence, some distant lights. Those work well. moody, dark, hazy, alone quiet and desolate. something very liminal. The ones to do with obviously assorted ones such as the sea weed in the R, the question mark and ones which are more commercialistic such as the T in the anchor of a sign. Those miss the feeling. They feel made for the purpose f the image instead of discovered, or like something that was meant to be found and looked at in that way. compare that to the arch in the D. it being flipped on it's side, half obscured in shadow highlighting it's light carved ridges. It feels less like something easy and intended and more like a hidden discovery. A mystery. Intrigue. same with the Flipped horizon lights in the letter "I".