Time Proposal continued.

As mentioned in my previous post I had a number ideas which focused on the actual depiction of time rather than capturing the essence of time. For records sake I am going to type up what I had planned for these initial proposals before scrapping them and totally rethinking the project.

Sunday Market:
I liked the possibilities of this space as it represented a large distribution of movement within different time scales.
The slow depletion of the produce from the creates, the medium pace of the stores setting up and packing down and the frantic movement of individuals doing their shopping. Technically I had hoped to spend the entire day with a tripod and a good book taking medium length exposures, so as to slightly blur individuals, with a period of  between 1 and 5 minutes. This large set of images would then have been combined with video editing software.

Badminton:
The other idea was to take photos of either myself or the people in my club playing, attempting to get crisp, fast shutter, photos of the grace that is evident in sports and physical disciplines.

Both these ideas were scrapped due to my dislike of the literal interpretation of the brief.

Timeless God:
The next idea that I had, which actually involved my camera was the concept of religion, specifically those under the lose banner "Christianity". I wanted do contrast the timeless nature of God with the fickle nature of man; the differing representations that denominations have of curtain aspects. To do this I wanted to take shots from within churches. Each church would have the same number of photographs with the same compositions:

• Wide angle overview.
• Medium shot of alter.
• Choir (+ organ if church had them) looking back toward entrance.
• Close up of Pews, emphasis on parallel features.
• Close of up of banners/colored windows/roof carvings.

When I went out to take these photos I had the romantic notion that churches were open all the time, like they are in the movies... So the initial shots for this were all external ones.

At around this point I found the photographs of the amusement park destroyed by hurricane Katrina and once again felt compelled to scrap my concept...

As you can see these photographs were not very inspired, as at the time I was mostly pissed off at my inability to get inside the buildings!