Week 12 - Still Life

52 Week Challenge - Week 12

Still Life is a genre I have tried a few times over the years and despite having spent loads of time trying to perfect a scene I have never been truly happy with the results.

So rather than start in the studio I began by immersing myself in the Still Life images of other photographers in a huge variety of styles. And I found myself being inspired by images of “old stuff”.

Not only old things but old lifestyles, photographed in an old style and evoking old memories.

So I looked around indoors and realised there was probably a good reason for my affiliation to the subject – we have a lot of old stuff!! A great deal of this old stuff having photographic potential,  I set to work creating my idea of Still Life.

It is very time consuming to set the scene for each image. I have spent a lot of hours this week tweaking and fiddling with the little bits and pieces and I was never quite sure if I had nailed it or not.

But these few images are what I ended up with and I will leave it up to you to decide if they work.