The first printed compilation of my Dead Pegs project … a copy of which is currently hanging in the Members Show at PhotoAccess in the Manuka Arts Centre.
I've been long fascinated by these pegs … single-function objects that have reached the end of their useful lives and left to decay in the pebble-field beneath the clotheslines … I've been photographing them on and off for about 6 months now … time to get them out there … both prints measure 420mm x 720mm.
Dead Pegs was printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth – a fine matte paper with excellent colour depth
Also in the show is a print of my Starfield I picture printed on Baryta Photographique, a fine grained lustre because I thought a small degree of gloss would increase the depth of the picture … given it's our galaxy after all 🙂
Both pictures were printed by Stephen Best of Macquarie Editions in Braidwood.
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Oh my. The moribund pegs made me smile, and the Starfield filled me with awe.
Thanks Sue, I like them both together … the big and the small 🙂
The juxtaposition of the two images is otherworldly, but does show the range of your photographic eye.
Thanks Sally … that juxtaposition (great word that!) was exactly what I was going after here by presenting the two images side by side 🙂
Pegs have never looked so beautiful, what an amazing eye you have.
Dead Pegs! Who’d have though they could be so photogenic 🙂
Wow, what an interesting idea and what interesting photos. It is amazing the things we just discard without a second thought and then the ocean of the world or the wind or something or somebody just carries those poor discarded things here and there for all to see. One could say like "dirty laundry" – sometimes this is true and shame on us when we do do that – but sometimes just because it happens and we do not notice at the time that something broke and drifted away from us – in this it could be a treasure for the finder!! Life is full of many interesting supposings and stories of whys! Thank you for presenting yours. Mari
Thanks Mari … there are examples of this all around us as we seek to hold the forever new and displace from our minds that which is no longer of any use to us…
stunning. I love both prints, and especially the contrast between them…
Thank you Dear 🙂
We exist in the space between them xx 🙂
i like it! and i miss your comments on my blog 😉
I’ve been so very busy here and so very slack on my visitings and comments. I think to myself I could just pop in but then don’t feel I can give things the full attention they deserve with the net result that I don’t visit or comment at all …
Then, as I fall further behind … the task seems ridiculously large and I neglect it even more … these are the thoughts behind my absence! G xx