Week 14 - Solitude - M. Fayre and the melody censor

left: M. Fayre
right: the melody censor

tmc: Summer is a busy time for most people, and most (not all) of the participants of he Divine Diptych Project are in areas of the world that are currently experiencing summer, so there are only four ladies able to participate in this round. With only two diptych to create, we decided that it would be an interesting experiment to all use the same theme as the inspiration for contributions - solitude

Marico and I were the first two of the four to have our images ready, so we decided to pair them and post. I think it's interesting that we both chose an outdoor (nature) location as the setting for our solitude. Perhaps it has something to do with life and summer being busy as I said before...

Week 12 - Vivid - sadandbeautiful (Sarah) and M.Fayre

Left: M.Fayre

Right: sadandbeautiful (Sarah)

M: Sarah and I were both suffering from a lack of inspiration and a surplus of interruption this week. However, this lead us both to photos other than our normal self-portraits and I am actually pretty happy with how these combined (though I do want to collaborate with Sarah on sp's one day as I we often seem to have a similar style or vision). When I saw Sarah's gorgeously graphic building shot I decided to pull one of mine from the archives in order to contrast the natural roundness of the heirloom tomatoes with the stark lines of Sarah's shot. Amazingly, the colors are actually rather similar. Also worth noting, Sarah's is shot with a Holga!

Week 3 - Movement - rowandevoe & MFayre

Left: MFayre

Right: rowandevoe

Merle has to be one of the most prolific artists I know, and one of the most patient. We were both battling illness this week, but Merle was a sweetheart and sent me a dozen or so images to choose from. They are all gorgeous images, but I think this combination works best (an alternate version is on my Flickr stream, if you are curious). I decided to illustrate "movement" using a long exposure on the water, while Merle froze her movement. It was very interesting to see how we both interpreted this idea, and as an added bonus I had fun editing Merle-style!

Week 2 - Silhouette - Sarah Schloo & MFayre

Top: MFayre

Bottom: Sarah Schloo

Sarah and I were both very excited about "silhouette," but looking at our images, I think the theme was "woman in a window" and we just didn't know it.

Sarah is traveling, so she sent her image earlier this week, but due to an email snafu it ended up in my spam and I didn't actually see it until today. How exciting! Thinking about "silhouette" brought to mind women in stilettos and tight skirts, but ultimately I decided to go with something a little more subtle for this theme; looking at Sarah's image, I am glad I did.

Kudos to Sarah for shooting this without a tripod and with very little time. Hopefully she likes this pairing...I love it. Every week is so much fun, especially since I get to work with this group of amazing women. Thank you to everyone for your interest thus far!

Week 1 - Literature. Mfayre and Elle Moss

The only criteria Marico and I had was that we would use color and shoot vertically. It was a nice surprise to see that our tones were similar and I think the mood of each piece is similar as well. We actually each shot a few images and sent them to each other and while all pairings looked great, I think this one worked best. Its that lovely little touch of blue :)

Left: mfayre Right: Elle Moss