TAOI#35

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:10:29 -0800

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

In this fun book, there are, amongst lots of other wonderful things, 100 iPhoneography ‘missions’. I intend to fulfil them slowly but surely.

This is # 35: Shoot your shadow on a textured surface.
A double shadow even - on the platform at Amsterdam Central Station.

This doubles as a contribution for the wonderful Creatively Challenged group.
This week's theme: the person behind the camera.
This is me, on my way to work, in Amsterdam.
Taking a picture with my iPhone, because I love taking photos and the Hipstamatic app is the only way pictures taken with what is actually a phone become Flickr-worthy for me.

Processing: none, taken with Hipstamatic on iPhone 4.

1.Be silent in a cemetery.
2.Visit a farm and explore a worn path.
~~3.Make a cup of tea and follow the colour saturation of water.~~
4.Fill up a bucket of water to reveal your reflection.
~~5.Find something blue.~~
~~6.Pay attention to words and phrases painted on buildings.~~
7.Seek out light in the dark.
~~8.Put yourself in an urban setting and follow the flow of graffiti or other bold forms of public expression.~~
9.Look for odd combinations of elements.
~~10.Tour a city in the dim of night.~~
~~11.Minimize the horizon.~~
~~12.Sink back into bed and notice the creases and familiar folds of pillows and sheets.~~
13.Hard boil, crack, and peel some eggs. Pile up the delicate shells.
~~14.Seek out a repetitive pattern.~~
15.Find jagged edges or points of intersection.
16.Watch something disappear.
~~17.Find your image in a shiny metal surface.~~
18.Attend a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo and befriend a zoologist.
19.Throw something or someone in water and evaluate the splash.
~~20.Let raindrops distort your view through the window.~~
21.Ask someone to make a wish.
22.Submerge yourself and shoot just above the water level in a pool full of people.
~~23.Grant yourself permission to make an honest self-portrait every week.~~
24.Go someplace you’ve never seen.
~~25.Create abstract compositions of electrical wires on a backdrop of sky.~~
~~26.Find a disconnect.~~
~~27.Climb on top of a flight of stairs and look down.~~
28.Study a collection of discarded objects on a table. Consider how they relate.
~~29.Ride a train and study strangers as they enter and exit.~~
30.Segment a space into three unequal sections.
31.Seek out geometric shapes in shades of grey.
32.Let the dishes pile up in the sink and extract compositions.
33.Submerge something tall in a glass of half-full of water.
34.Put yourself on a horizontal plane and shoot what appears closest to you.
~~35.Shoot your shadow on a textured surface.~~
36.Find two unrelated object with similar shapes.
37.Experience a scene through a screen or faded glass.
38.Let the weeds get a little out of control.
39.Exploit a variety of textures in a single scene.
40.Admire the colour palette of butterfly wings.
~~41.Simplify something to the point of abstraction.~~
~~42.Record words and phrases that speak to you in public places.~~
43.Take notice of people of objects aligned with lines on the ground.
44.Find one colour to connect two objects in a tight space.
45.Place big things in small hands.
~~46.Call out to your pet and records the moment of connection.~~
~~47.Stand at a bus stop. Notice what people do when they wait.~~
48.Stop to take a peek inside an open window.
~~49.Place something small beside something really tall.~~
50.Visit a friend and survey the objects in the neighbour’s backyard.
51.Be still with someone you love as they sleep in morning light.
~~52.Invite a critter into your hand.~~
~~53.Learn to embrace the blur of motion.~~
54.Make water stains.
~~55.Creep in close.~~
56.Watch the body language of best friends.
57.Minimize the view of a seemingly complex scene.
58.Explore a science museum and note the visuals that make you pause.
59.Juxtapose something old and something new.
60.Peel an orange. Study the segments.
61.Make art with barbed wire.
~~62.Find something old and faded.~~
63.Offer a fresh view of a familiar statue or monument.
64.Ask someone to make a big leap.
65.Put something delicate on concrete.
~~66.Tilt a horizontal scene on a diagonal.~~
~~67.Meet an imaginary friend.~~
68.Capture the opposite of a smile.
69.Notice the impact of advertisements in a landscape or cityscape.
70.Find something in a state of rest.
71.Document a curious moment from an inconsequential sequence of events.
~~72.Notice the position of your feet.~~
73.Take a road trip. Document the placement of people and objects in the vehicle.
~~74.Seek colour.~~
75.Hand someone something.
~~76.Follow a crowd of people with umbrellas.~~
77.Eavesdrop on a conversation, but focus on the facial expressions.
78.Watch an event and capture it through the fence.
79.Study the texture of natural objects found at the beach.
80.Connect objects and exploit the negative space.
81.Share a story from an unusual perspective.
82.Find a gradient of colour.
83.Document your conversation partner and what fills the space between you.
84.Focus on points of connection.
85.Reduce something big.
86.Disrupt a scene.
87.As someone to do a stunt.
88.Place unfamiliar objects in hands’ reach of kids.
~~89.Find something round.~~
90.Capture an odd facade.
~~91.Stay close to a dreamer weary from travel.~~
92.Find an object that disrupts a pattern.
93.Study the colour and shape of your breakfast.
94.Watch someone doing something they love.
95.Find someone folded.
96.Find someone folding.
97.Position yourself above your subject.
98.Position yourself below your subject.
99.Reveal what’s hidden.
~~100. Position yourself as close to your subject as you can get.~~

green and blue

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:30:18 -0800

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

Processing: sooc except of course for the square crop and collage.

shadow of summer

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:41:00 -0700

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

Processing: b&w.

336/365 and ECM 4/5

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:55:00 -0700

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

Buddha sits quietly on his mountain top, lit by only the moon.

(or rather, was strategically placed on a stool in the right position to be included in this shadow on the wall of the trees outside my bedroom window)

(also, little buddha doesn't have a humped back, it's his knapsack)

Processing: none, sooc.

215/365

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Thu, 05 May 2011 04:30:37 -0700

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

My second day at the new job. Buried deep on a shelf somewhere I found a tiny plexiglass tree that I thought was very cute. It’s now on the corner of my desk, casting this shadow when the sun’s out.

Processing: none, taken with Hipstamatic on iPhone 4.

it's the little things

nobody@flickr.com (Chantal van der Ende-Appel) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:23:12 -0700

Chantal van der Ende-Appel posted a photo:

Taken during a great evening with friends, sitting on the floor next to the fireplace. The table was filled with drinks and snacks, but you'd never tell looking at this - my little corner was so beautiful that I couldn't resist taking a picture. Thanks to my friends for letting me use their dSLR.

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TAOI#35

green and blue

shadow of summer

336/365 and ECM 4/5

215/365

it's the little things