Revisiting Memories
Once in a while I clean off a shelf in my studio and find things I put aside for inspiration or a project. This week I found the pressed flowers from the trip to Ecuador. They were stacked between construction paper in a folder and are in pretty good condition. There were even moth wings we collected. In between other projects (like using older clays in jewelry and making soup and jerky), I decided to take pictures of the pressed flowers for a photo book and research how to mount them. I want to give a book to my friend, Michelle, who helped me collect the flowers as a memory of our trip. Michelle and her husband, Chan, went to Ecuador with Peter and me in 2008. I remember Michelle asking what I ever did with the pressed flowers and my answer was ‘nothing’. Guess it is time to do ‘something’. Today I set up the camera on a tripod outside in natural light and started shooting. Next was editing the photos a...