AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT

I took a few photos the other day of various pieces hanging around and came up with this alternative viewpoint of a rather nice Kakurezaki Ryuichi tokkuri. I realize that i posted this tokkuri up on my blog back in April but if you compare the two photos you can see how different the same piece can look with various variables affecting the image. In this photo there the surface texture running down the piece and the variety of natural ash effects tell a fuller story of the pot. I am a huge proponent of constantly re-photographing pottery in various lighting, different moods behind the lens and with additional cameras if possible. Over the years I have collected up quite a few digital images and love to revisit the folders for each pot to not only remind me of subtleties I may have forgotten but also to discover nuances that I may have missed previously. In this photo it is clear that the twilight illumination was just the right time and thing to bring out details that may have escaped this tokkuri's first encounter with my camera.