Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Old Things - inspiration for art

I love photographing old gears and metal things that were once useful. I find them absolutely fascinating and beautiful. This past weekend I had the chance to add to my collection of photos when I went to the Arrow Rock Heritage Festival with a couple of friends. We went into historic buildings, one of which housed a number of old printing presses and Linotype machines. These photos were taken with my Panasonic point-and-click camera. (I'm hoping to get a DSLR and a macro lens for shooting things like this in the future, but for now this is what I have.)


And since I believe I failed to post photos of the Dewey bridge in Utah from my trip last year, I will also include this photo I took of the rusted supports for the suspension bridge. With the wood planks gone, it was the strangest bridge I'd ever seen:

My thought is to somehow, someday use some of these things in my art...

All photos copyright Katrina Kouba Boles
Posted by KatrinaKB at 6:11 PM
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  1. bymindyOctober 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    Katrina.........I love gears, bolts, rust--they are wonderfully entertaining with their light and dark issues--and the colors can be phenomenal--just look at all the color possibilities in the rusted bolts--wowee....and they are great golden ratio studies....your photos are beautiful!

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