A couple of months ago, ViewPoint Gallery moved from their original location to a street level address downtown (1272 Barrington Street); as part of the relocation, the landlord provided us with a new concrete floor. Once the floor had been finished, the gallery members had a little evening party to celebrate the new location. The next day, I dropped by the gallery, and noticed a carnation frozen in condensation that had run down the single-pane windows (new concrete gives off lots of water!).
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For a while, that image, of a flower encased in a block of ice was stuck in my head, and in an effort to both exorcise it, and to see where the idea would lead, I threw a flower into some water-filled Tupperware, and put it into my freezer. The next morning, a surprise greeted me when I popped the ice block out of the containers.
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Almost every side of the ice block presented something interesting to photography; from one side, the ice was a mass of bubbled, with only a hint of colour from the flower within, while on other sides the flower itself emerged from the bubbles as if it was surfacing within a sea of white. I set up some studio lights, and put the ice block within a light tent to even the lighting out, and began to photograph the flower within the ice.
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In the end, the experience of working with the flower in ice has left me hungry for more. There were some technical issues which I need to overcome, and I wonder what other flowers will do in the same environment (can you call a block of ice an environment), but overall for a first stab a totally new direction, I am pleased with the results.
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