After the guest lecture in class yesterday, we had a go at making our own photograms, which is, at it’s most basic, the process of taking a photo without a camera. Essentially, this means taking a piece of light-sensitive paper, putting an object on it and exposing it to the light.

The photograms probably looked cooler when they were developing than when they were finished.

I found this to be a super interesting process, as I never even knew this was a thing you could do before yesterday. The process behind photography in general has always been a thing that’s kind of bamboozled my brain, so stripping it down to three simple ingredients – the paper, the object, and the sun – helps me to begin to understand how the whole light thing really works. And plus, it makes for some super cool effects, as long as your chosen strand of flowers doesn’t blow away in the wind. The warm toned paper and the fern are my favourite ones because the effects produced were the most interesting.

Tanbark

Ferny ferns

Another fern

Some leaves.