Suzanne challenged me to photograph “something that is not nothing” (making reference to my last week’s challenge to depict “nothing.”
At first I thought this was incredibly simple—ANYTHING that is SOMETHING is by default NOT NOTHING. Hooray! But I got to thinking I ought to put a teeny bit of thought to this—and came up with something that may be thought of as nothing—a hole. An empty space, if you will. I’m not sure this does justice to the deep philosophical thought that could accompany the concept. But It’s what presented itself.
On another front it’s proof that although I had taken a “last” picture of the boards my brother and I put in his burn pile, I’m not finished making photographic use of the ones I kept.
Your response to the challenge definitely works for me. It is harder than you think once you get thinking about it. A hole is something that is definitely not nothing. And your image of the planks also has some cracks in it which put me in mind of Leonard Cohen's anthem and the lines:
'There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in'.
And I love the textures and the edit in your 'final' plank photo!
hi Mary, sorry I meant to get to this yesterday. How about bringing some flowers in and making a still life arrangement , shooting them in window light with a dark background. if that feels too demanding you could float them in water and do a flat lay.
Hope it works. https://365project.org/ankers70/365/2024-08-05
'There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in'.
And I love the textures and the edit in your 'final' plank photo!
If you don't fancy this let me know and I will set something else. Cheers.