Final Project Photographs

What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions?

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected? We see these beautiful co-adaptations most plainly in the woodpecker and missletoe; and only a little less plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feather of a bird; . . . in short, we see beautiful adaptation everywhere and in every part of the organic world

Assignment: Create original project. I wanted to explore projection photography. I wanted to express a connection between the human body and the natural world since we are a part of nature and we were not created to be where we are now, but rather we evolved to where we are now and we continue to evolve, just as all creatures are. I think projection photography was a good way to express this thought. My biggest struggle was creating body movements that complimented the photos, I didn't want anything to look forced. One thing I found to work well was to ask some of my models to pretend they were stretching in the morning. I would drop my camera and let them stretch until I liked their pose and then I lift my camera and take the shot.