My project, or idea, for the picturebook, was to show the feelings and sensations of walking into or in the cold on a winters morning. I believe that these pictures do a fair job of showing the feel of winter, but I do regret that I was unable to get the pictures of a person breathing out, creating fog, and the picture of a large snow drift. Only two of these pictures, the one with the gloved hand and the one one with the booted foot, required me to stage anything. Just by popping out my back/side door allowed me to scare away the many squirrels quarreling over the fall seeds, and the birds around my house have become so accustomed to people that they do not fly away if you get close to them. The picture of the footprints might have been me, but there were so many while I was out taking these pictures that to say I staged these exact footprints to be where they were, with the shadows, would be wrong. The only difficult part in taking all of these pictures was the waiting for a significant snow storm, as the weekend we started this project it reached the high 40's, taking away some of my options.
My project, or idea, for the picturebook, was to show the feelings and sensations of walking into or in the cold on a winters morning. I believe that these pictures do a fair job of showing the feel of winter, but I do regret that I was unable to get the pictures of a person breathing out, creating fog, and the picture of a large snow drift. Only two of these pictures, the one with the gloved hand and the one one with the booted foot, required me to stage anything. Just by popping out my back/side door allowed me to scare away the many squirrels quarreling over the fall seeds, and the birds around my house have become so accustomed to people that they do not fly away if you get close to them. The picture of the footprints might have been me, but there were so many while I was out taking these pictures that to say I staged these exact footprints to be where they were, with the shadows, would be wrong. The only difficult part in taking all of these pictures was the waiting for a significant snow storm, as the weekend we started this project it reached the high 40's, taking away some of my options.
