In the midst of all the moving trauma (Boxes everywhere! Too few boxes! Bank loans!) I took the time to do a quick photo challenge for this weeks theme for the Swedish Flickr group Fotosöndag (Photo Sunday). This week the theme was “Samlad”, which could be translated as “Collected”. It took me a couple of days to come up with an idea. All I could think about was that all my earthly belongings were collected in a storage unit down the free way. And I wasn’t very inspired by the thought of photographing an entire mountain of brown boxes. But then I started thinking about how people collect things they think are beautiful, like different specimens of colourful butterflies and such, and I wanted to recreate that somehow.
This was the end result, that I posted on Flickr:
Collected: Best Friend
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This is what you need to take this picture:
- Best friend who doesn’t mind to try and help with your rather fuzzy and crazy visions
- Also best friend is very crafty and can make pretty antennae from pretty paper
- Understanding boyfriend who doesn’t mind getting kicked out of his work space because it happens to have a glass door
- Leafy overgrown flower bed outside your door where you can steal some greens
- Frilly white kiddy umbrella from the toy store to tape on your floor lamp in futile attempt to create some sort of diffused lighting
- Also, every type of movable light source you can find in your entire home
It really wasn’t an easy shoot for a happy amateur like me. The rain was pouring outside, there was little natural light, getting any sort of focus through the glass was hard, and so on. But we had a lot of fun, and that’s the best thing about all this! I have so many funny shots of Sara, she makes the best facial expressions! Here is a another shot I really like:
Other themes for Photo Sunday:
