MEANMAGENTA-PHOTOGRAPHY: 2007

FRESH FLOWERS AND JAM JAR

I CAN'T RESIST TAKING SHOTS OF FLOWERS ARRANGED IN SMALL GLASS JARS, THE MID MORNING LIGHT WAS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT ON THE FLOWERS, IT GIVES NEAT AND CRISP CONTOURS.

I WAS IN A HUGE AND STYLISH BOUTIQUE IN NEW YORK, I WAS QUITE OVERWHELMED BY THE SHEER SCALE OF...BASICALLY EVERYTHING. I WAS IN N.Y. FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN MY FIRST YEAR AT UNIVERSITY,...IT IS TRUE: EVERYTHING HAS A DIFFERENT, MUCH BIGGER, SCALE IN THE USA!

BLURRED BLUE III

ANOTHER SHOT FROM UNDERNEATH THE PLASTIC DOMED ROOF, OBSERVING THE WEAVING OF BRANCHES AND THE CAST SHADOWS, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL CLEAR DAY, I TOOK THIS SHOT IN THE LATE MORNING.

OPAQUE V

VIEW ONTO THE COUNTRYSIDE FROM MY WINDOW, AT THE TIME I WAS STAYING AT A CAMPUS AS AN UNDERGRADUATE. THIS IMAGE IS PART OF MY RESEARCH ON BLURRED AND OPAQUE. I'D DESCRIBE THIS IMAGE ONLY WITH ONE WORD: ATMOSPHERIC.

WALKING HOME III

SHORTLY AFTER TAKING THE WALKING HOME SHOT, I SAW THESE AMAZING LEAVES, GROWING ALL OVER A TALL WALL OF THE NANI VILLA IN VICENZA. I STOOD THERE OBSERVING THE CONTOURS AND THE REPEAT PATTERN THAT THEY CREATED. I WANTED TO TAKE AWAY THESE LEAVES WITH ME, IN A WAY I DID. THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO FEEL I AM STILL THERE STANDING BY THAT VILLA'S WALL.

SOME GREAT GERBERAS AT THE LOCAL FLORIST IN
FULHAM, LONDON. DEFINATELY AN UNUSUAL VIEW , I LOVE IT! THIS IMAGE IS SO VIBRANT AND
CONVEYS CHEERFULNESS

WALKING HOME

I WAS TAKING A WALK LEADING TO THE ROTUNDA VILLA IN VICENZA, WHEN I STOPPED TO TAKE THIS SHOT. I LOVE THE STILLNESS AND PEACE THAT THIS IMAGE CONVEYS TO ME. I THINK THAT THE ROUGHNESS OF THE STONES AND THE LEAVES' CONTOURS ARE A BEAUTIFUL COMBINATION.

BLURRED BLUE I

THIS IS ONE OF MY FIRST SHOTS I TOOK WITH A MOBILE PHONE. I WAS IN GENOA, ITALY, THE TOWN WHERE I WAS BORN. I DIDN'T HAVE MY CAMERA WITH ME AND I DECIDED TO GO "DIGITAL" FOR A SHORT WHILE, AS I HAD TO TAKE THIS PHOTOGRAPH. LEAVES AND BRANCHES CLAIMING BACK THEIR PLACES BY GROWING OVER A PLASTIC DOMED ROOF. I LOOKED UP AND SAW THIS BEAUTIFUL WEAVE OF BRANCHES AND LEAVES.

VENICE, GLORIOUS, BEAUTIFUL, UNIQUE, THIS CITY HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED MILLION TIMES. THIS SHOT IS A DETAIL OF A SMALL CHURCH TUCKED AWAY IN ONE OF THE SMALL "CAMPI", THE SMALL SQUARES HIDDEN IN A LABIRYNTH WHERE I DON'T MIND GETTING LOST.

ORCHIDS I

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THESE ORCHIDS PRINTED ON A HUGE WALL! THESE FLOWERS WERE A GIFT, I LOOKED AT THEM BY THE WINDOW, I PUT SOME TISSUE PAPER ON THE WINDOW TO GET A MORE DIFFUSED AND SOFT LIGHT AND TOOK A FEW SHOTS, THEN I DID SOME DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATION.

LILY III

THIS IS ONE OF MY RECENT DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATIONS: I CHOSE TO USE ONE OF MY ORIGINAL COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AND ADD A PAINTERLY EFFECT. THIS VERSIONS IS DEFINATELY BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL SHOT.