Featured In: / -Still Life And Food Photography / -Fabulous Flowers The roses that were my Valentine’s gift have dried and the pottery vase from my daughter has just been waiting for the right ‘something’ to fill it. My plan with these photographs of my daughter’s pottery is to photograph as many of her pieces as possible before they’ve all been given away so she’ll have a record of her work. I’ve mentioned before that I find roses difficult to photograph. Well, dried roses are even worse! LoL The camera picks up every very dry area and makes a spectacular blown-out highlight. You wouldn’t think a photograph of roses would be accompanied by some rather awful growling noises on the part of the photographer but maybe those growls added some texture. :-D HollyCawfieldPhotography
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Zen spa still life with Raku vase, natural dried flowers, basin, and stones.
Oil. 80×80cm ‘Experts calculated that in the heyday there were up to 4,000 bottle kilns in Stoke-on-Trent with as many as 2,000 still standing in the 1950’s. The Clean Air Act of 1953 sounded the death-knell for the smoky, coal fired oven. There are 47 still standing today – all are listed buildings.’
I use to do pottery and this is one of my pieces I did. Edited in Photoshop
Female figure in mind body immersion with cracked earth.
The pottery series continues. After a visit to my daughter’s, I came home with quantities of it to photograph. She’s obviously a trusting soul….I think she expects me to return it. :-)
You know, the wonderful thing about still life is that the subject is still ....a very big plus after spending so much time trying to get macro shots of flowers that blow willy nilly in the slightest breeze and create a memory card full of out of focus shots. The other thing that I’m loving is the way the subject doesn’t mind all the fiddling ….being arranged and re-arranged…although I do think I heard a bit of a squeak from these onions and potatoes. They may have been on the verge of going on strike after all the manhandling. :-D HollyCawfieldPhotography
This is another shot taken in Pakistan capturing the beauty that is created by the hands of the people. Here you see a man’s hands forming a bowl identical to the tens and twenties he has already created that morning. What you don’t see is that he sits on a flat rock on the floor surrounded by sand and gravel under a tattered tent shielding him from the blistering heat. But these conditions do not effect the perfection of his craft. In the hour I spent with him, never did a bowl turn out to be anything other than what he expected, perfect.
Fourth in the Stoke-on-Trent series of paintings of the Potteries before the clean air act of 1953. Oil. 70×70cm / prints available from www.creativestoke.co.uk
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Featured In: / -Layered With Texture This is a piece of my daughter’s pottery and one of my favourites. I love the shape and glaze on this one and, of course, I’m so proud of her and that her teacher has told her she’s advancing surprisingly quickly. I’m not surprised. :-D
Oil on canvas. 70×70cm . / A view of Stoke-on-Trent in the past before the Clean Air Act of the 1950s. Some of the tenants used old ‘saggers’ to make walls. Saggers being the earthenware pots used to stack crockery for firing in the bottle ovens.
A young woman creates beauty with her hands. Shot at Loxton in the Riverland region of South Australia.
The potter’s son. Potter’s colony, Pune, India.
With the snow on the ground it’s the perfect opportunity to stay indoors and play with some still life photography…..and stay warm. :) Not only does the grocery store provide some ‘photographic fodder’ but so does my daughter. This time instead of flowers it’s one of her pieces of pottery. She began to learn the craft a few months ago and she may just find pieces missing after one of my visits to her home! :) HollyCawfieldPhotography
Flower Pots for all seasons / bright array of flowers in colourful pots / to brighten up your day!
Just finished this historical journey through the cultural and tribal advances and achievements of a prehistoric people called the “ANASAZI” – pronounced ah-nah-Sah-zee, as my granddaughter gets ready to journey there and other parts of the Southwest.
This is an incense burner that I bought on Koh Kred island; a small man-made island just outside of Bangkok, Thailand. It is home to the Mon community, known to be skilled potters. The island is small enough that you can go around on foot in about a couple of hours (no cars are allowed). The guide told us to walk so that the water was always to our left so that we would not lose our way. I of course realized at one point that the water was to my right … typical! In trying to find my way back, I stumbled upon this building that had pottery work as far as the eye could see. As I was taking photos, a woman grabbed my arm and lead me in to a row of four men who were spinning pottery … my own private showing!
Zen spa still life with Raku vase, natural dried flowers, and stones.
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