This is the thirteenth collaboration between Richard from CK Ponderings and I. This time, it was down to me to set the theme, and I chose Electricity. Hope you like the results…
Richard Cooper-Knight:
Richard’s turn for a theme this time around, and the title Electricity sparked off a number of ideas (I apologise; I couldn’t resist that one… Puns over, I promise…)
The weather kept me indoors and, not being brilliant at dark shooting, I needed something with a good contrast to show up readily in the image. I had a go at using an extension lead to create a word, but my patience ran out quickly when it didn’t do what I wanted it to, and when both the lead and my camera nearly ended up out of the window, I called it a day on that front…
In the end, I settled for the plug from my phone charger and, after toying with a light background, the dark shiny cover of my printer proved useful.
Comments and suggestions warmly welcomed on this post, though highly charged ones are not. (Sorry… couldn’t help myself…)
Richard Guest:
For our thirteenth collaboration, I decided on Electricity as a theme, because I thought it would act as a spur to me to make an energetic, spiky, zappy image. Interestingly it had the opposite effect (I rejected a few street shots, because they looked like I was trying to make some kind of point). This is a light fitting in an office building.
Here’s a track by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band from their 1967 album Safe As Milk entitled Electricity. The album’s great – it treads a fine line between experimentation and classic song structure and a young Ry Cooder plays guitar and arranges two songs. But the Captain’s voice is the thing!
When I see the first image, the I think if there’s one more in your collaboration – because there’s 3 leg on it… ‘big smile’
Ha, ha – very funny! 🙂
Both images are fantastic. Excellent post. Really has me wired.
Thanks so much, Terry. Ha, I fear this is going to be pun day.
Hehe… Very funny… 😛
Another great pairing, Richard! 🙂 I’m intrigued by your shot, though… 🙂
Yes, I think so too – love it when that happens! 🙂 How so?
Intrigued, because I’m trying to work out what it is! 😀
It’s a ceiling-mounted light fitting in an office. I was interested in the spread of light on the tile above. Looks better in colour 🙂
Look fine to me! 😀
🙂 Thanks!
This is a great theme, and I like the way both of you have approached. Simple but effective, and powerful, I’m going to say, before someone else does 😉
Thanks very much, EllaDee! And for the pun!
Great images. Both are very graphic, minimalist images and I think work very well. I always find, having travelled a fair bit, that there is something iconic about Britain’s three-pronged adapter. The simple lines and patterns of your image are great and I like the slightly-off centre placement of the light fitting – there is an understated dynamism too it.
Thanks, Stevie. That’s really great to hear – I spent ages staring at the image hoping that it was doing something and that I wasn’t just convincing myself. Thanks.
I like the simplicity of both of these very much. It’s really interesting to see both interpretations.
Thanks, Karen. Yes, it’s odd how Richard and I often approach a subject in a way that means the pictures hang well together. This on particularly so.
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Trying so hard to resist the pun but I love the connection you two have – the simplicity of form and function comes together so well!
Ha, thanks, Patti!
I love the abstraction of both images. They are both slightly ominous.
Thanks, Deanne. I think Richard’s is quite threatening, ha ha.
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I really like both of these a lot – very striking images – something crime novel book cover-ish about them..
Thanks very much, Cath. Oh, yes – hadn’t made that connection, but I like it a lot. Thanks!
It is really interesting to see what you guys come up when you have the same theme.
Thanks, Leanne – I really like opening the email from Richard, just before these posts, to see what he’s done – it’s always a surprise and really interesting when the images go so well together, because we never discuss the images beforehand.
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Both images are very striking interpretations of the theme. Nice work!
Thanks very much! 🙂
Though my outlet and passion is art my studies are science and anything I find properly collaborating the two = beautiful.
I really enjoyed coming across these.
Thanks very much, Natasha – I’m really glad you liked the works. The conjunction of science and art fascinates me too – do you know the artist John Latham? I was obsessed with his work for a while.
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