Vases and Vessels

I got a bit obsessed with the various ancient pottery in the Fitzwilliam Museum and photographed several of the wonderfully inventive and elegant shapes as double exposures using the wall or floor to add texture. Here are 8 of them with a tryptic of three of the most colourful to start.. 

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

 As the weather forecast was for continuous heavy rain, we changed our plans and visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge instead. Jane wanted to see the Made in Ancient Egypt Exhibition but I had plans for a session trying various techniques to depict the modern architecture of the museum. David Roberts was commissioned to design an annexe alongside the main museum in 1973 which contained new gallery space and an accessible entrance.

The first 5 images are single exposures - the blue and yellow tones are from daylight and artificial lights; not sure where the purple has come from on the spiral staircase. The second set of 6 images are double exposures done in camera

The Blue Hours in Cambridge Sidgwick Site

Fifteen Members of Cambridge Camera Club met for an evening photography session around the modern buildings on the Sidgwick site. I decided to have a go at multiple exposures with different Blend modes and changing the White Balance between shots. Here are some of my favourites.

 

Double Exposure at the Fitztwilliam Cambridge

A bit of creative time at the Fitzwilliam Museum using multiple exposure and changing the white balance between exposures. And just for fun, last one done in the computer as you can't change blending modes on the Fuji double exposures 

Refined Decay in Launde Abbey Gardens

We are spending the weekend at a Nature Photographers' weekend  at Launde Abbey, an Elizabethan manor house, extensively modified, originally built on the site of an Augustinian priory.Thomas Cromwell owned but never lived in the house but his son, Gregory, lived at Launde Abbey for ten years before it passed to other families. Finally, in 1957, Cecil Coleman and his wife purchased the abbey and presented it to the Diocese of Leicester. They paid for the conversion works to make it into a retreat house. It has extensive grounds including a splendid wall garden with a fairly derelict greenhouse complete with negelected peppers, tomatoes, cacti, flowers etc. Phil and I spent a couple of hours there on Saturday playing with double exposures etc.

Northumberland Coast Through In-Camera Double Exposures

All but the fourth images are double exposures. I don't think all of these work but enjoyed playing and seeing what could be done with the limited double exposure setting of the Fuji X series cameras.