Posted on Monday 1st June, 2009 by Chris in Photography
Imagine if we were rich. We’d have butlers to bring us our beans on toast (a rare English delicacy), servants to blow on our cups of tea so they’re not too hot for us to drink; and inevitably we’d have bought a dishwasher — after all, even the chief cook and bottlewasher demand labour-saving gadgets these days!
But if we had, then I wouldn’t have been in the kitchen earlier tonight, half submerged in a bowl of washing up water, accompanied by a couple of plates, a knife, a fork and a few other select pieces of the family silver, or rather, the family stainless steel! Nor would I have seen these shadows, falling on our de luxe plastic chopping boards. Formed by the light of the late evening sun, filtered through a single layer of mosquito netting, they really are rather artistic, aren’t they? Even, dare I say it, painterly (the shadows, that is, not the chopping boards).
See how the rough texture of the boards contrasts with the sinuous curves of the pattern on the bottles. I say, is that half a litre of best corn oil lurking at the back? By heavens, I’ll swear it is too!
That is really cool. Beauty can be found if we only look.
NanaMamah
Very pleasing to the eye. It’s wonderful when we have the time to actually stop and look.
I think the top picture would make a fun framed print.
Beautiful picture Chris! Please tell Shana I’m thinking of her and of course you are included.
♥ Shana
Glad you all like the pictures. As always, they were a joint effort: I spotted the shadows, Shana did the camerawork, and I made the final selections and added the blurb – cutting edge, slice of life stuff.
We worked out the other day that this is the fourth time we’ve photographed shadows. See? If we had decent lighting in this place, we’d have missed all that.