I’m been terrible with keeping my blog up to date lately.

There has been a lot going on this year and I find it hard to keep up with the many, many demands on my time in the way I would like to. I’m very, very close to finally graduating from my graphic design degree. I started it in 2001, and have been studying part time (with many breaks in between to get married, travel and become a mum) ever since. It’s a very intense course; nothing at all like a normal university degree. Also, it’s four years, rather than the usual three. Anyway, I’m doing my final two units at the moment, and will be done at the end of October.

I’ve been meaning to post some of my design work for ages, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Today I thought I would share some photography I did for a recent project. It’s a bit different to what you normally see on my blog, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. The project was an annual report for a botanic garden. I wanted to do something different, so I chose black and white photography. Stripping away colour is a beautiful way of highlighting form, texture and pattern. It makes each plant appear so much more more interesting and delicate. I also removed each ‘object’ from it’s natural environment and photographed on a white background (using natural light only) to further enhance the intricacy of each detail (and also so I had some really creative options for page layout!). I wanted my images to be slightly reminiscent of traditional botanical drawings, but with an atmospheric, contemporary edge.