Wounded: (definition)
1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken. 2. An injury to the feelings.
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Wounded - the first in a creative photographic series about our environment |
This image is my first creation for a project I'm working on. I haven't decided on a name for the project yet, but I will be creating images that depict our impact on the environment.
I created this image from two photographs I took in 2013. The first image was a clearcut nearby where we used to live.
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Clearcut - 2013 |
The second image was the mill in Pictou. I'm not sure why I took this image at the time, because it was totally out of character for me. I had never taken a photo of an industrial scene before...I simply wasn't interested.
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Pictou Mill - 2013 |
I combined the two photographs to create one image. I rotated the photo of the mill, to make it look like a reflection. I debated about whether to offset the stand of trees and the mill, but I decided to keep them as though one was a reflection of the other.
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Compilation |
I converted the colour image to black an white to make it more stark, and I cloned some of the clearcut to make the transition between the two images to seem more natural.
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Compilation - Black and White |
As a last step, I decided that the image would look better square. Do you prefer the square image, or the image above? As I'm looking at them now, I'm thinking maybe the image above shows the impact of the mill on the sky better.
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Wounded by Sara Harley |
The first title I selected was "One Thing Leads To Another", but later in the day the word "wounded" popped into my mind. I looked up the definition, and it seemed to be a perfect fit.
Wounded:
1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken. 2. An injury to the feelings.