For the second time on the trot, Karen Fleming came out on top in Grade A in internal Group competitions. Her submission for the 'Decay' competition was a clock face with hands made from flowers. Here's how she made it:
"I originally had created a different shot but decided to to do something else instead as it was too similar to a previous shot from another competition. First, I was just going to do decayed flowers but then combined it with another idea I had in mind with old clocks. Having borrowed some old clock faces and clock mechanisms, I tried various different combinations 'till I eventually came up with the shot I submitted for the competition."
"The shot was setup on my kitchen table beside the patio door so I had all natural light coming in and lighting it up. For the background The clock face was hung on a section of my garden fence that was destroyed in the recent storms. I just got a small nail to pin the flowers together to mimic the hands of the clock. I used toothpicks between the joins of the Boards to hang the petals to give the illusion they were falling from the decaying flower as time ticked by."
"I took this image using my 24-105 lens on aperture of f20 ISO 200 2.5 seconds ."
See also:
How I took that Shot - Denis Barry
How I took that Shot - Joseph Keniry
