What does {gold} mean to you? Wealth, prosperity, pretty shiny things? Gold for me, and photographers all over the globe (and a large chunk of this blog circle I expect), means golden light and the golden hour, that short window of time where the sun is low enough in the sky to bathe everything with a delicious, warm, golden glow.
Last month I took images specifically for the Artists Inspired Blog Circle; this month I want to look back at my most favourite ever golden hour images. More specifically, I want to share with you one of my passions: my creative take on golden hour at the beach.
As I approach the end of my first Project 365 (goodness, I can hardly believe it) I find myself searching for ways to stay inspired. I am constantly thinking about what I can do to step it up creatively, be it in-camera double exposures, freelensing, intentional camera movement or shooting through objects. As you’ll see from the selection below, in the past few months I have rarely taken an image at the beach that is just ‘what you see is what you get.’
A word frequently used to describe my photographic style, and a metaphor I certainly aspire to, is ‘dreamy’. I aim to create images that feel like they’re part of a dream, that are memories before they have even departed, where the sound of the waves and the colour of the sky sweep you away and you feel like you’re floating in the moment. My aim is to capture that in-camera in a single image, using layers and textures to give you the sense of how a scene looks and feels. I hope to create a visual depiction of a memory, not purely what that memory looks like, and certainly not simply what it looks like now, but how it will look and feel after the blur of time. I want these images to hold the viewers gaze, to capture their imagination, to send them on a nostalgic journey, to make them feel the moment a little longer and a little more sincerely. I hope that the images I’m sharing now do that for you.
This blog is part of the Artists Inspired Blog Circle series. Click here to continue the circle and see how talented photographer, Channon Williamson, interpreted this month’s theme. Be sure to follow the links all the way round to complete the full circle.
The Artists Inspired Blog Circle is made up of an exceptionally talented group of photographers from all walks of life, from all over the world. They are wives, mothers, friends, daughters and visual storytellers who draw from their own experiences to create art that is inspiring, unique, beautiful and thought-provoking.
