Week 16 - Signs - sandandbeautiful (Sarah) & the melody censor

tmc: For the first week back I was paired with the wonderful sandandbeautiful (Sarah). Our theme this week was Signs.

It has been rediculously cold here, so venturing out to take photos wasn't really a valid option, so I too photos of the sign in the gallery I work in.

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 10: Sci-Fi / Rowandevoe and Sadandbeautiful

Top: Sadandbeautiful (Sarah)
Bottom: Rowandevoe (Merle)

Merle stepped in at the last minute when life got in the way of my assigned partner getting an image together. The theme "Sci-Fi/Fantasy" and I utilized my gas mask thinking about some futuristic, post-apocalyptic world. The idea for a decontamination shower came to me.
Merle created a deliciously creepy image of herself that, as she suggested, seems as if I had to take a decon shower after my run-in with her! :-)

Week 9 - Oppression - Sad and Beautiful Sarah and Geekgirly

Left: Sarah (sadandbeautiful)
Right: Sarah (geekgirly)

Sarah (geekgirly):As soon as I knew that our theme was "oppressed", I instantly had an idea pop into my head. You can interpret my image as you will, but my goal is to bring across how lucky that we are to live in freedom, unlike our sisters in other countries.

Sarah's image matched mine perfectly! I am so glad that we got matched together as we both (I think) have a similar "bold" style in our images.

Week 7: Romeo and Juliet, :anna: and Sadandbeautiful (Sarah)

Top: Anna as Juliet
Bottom: Sarah as Romeo

(Sarah) For Week 7 of we were paired up and given the theme of Romeo and Juliet. I right away wanted to discuss more ahead of time than the previous pairings and suggested we do the more iconic scenes (either the balcony or the death scene). I volunteered to be Romeo.

Originally I envisioned us doing a sort of gangster-era style image, picturing Anna in her gorgeous red dress, but life gets in the way as life tends to do, and we got this, which is growing on me more and more. I sorta like the creepy stalker vibe happening (yes I'm kind of a freak, nice to meet you).

Quizz and Sadandbeautiful(Sarah)

(Sarah here) This week I was paired with the über-talented Quizz and was extremely nervous about that! Our theme was ROPE. Each of us ended up letting the week get away from us and shooting late. I had a few options ready when Bogna sent me her somewhat macabre image. I ended up playing with my photo bit to match color better, I'll admit (as i was BW before)!

We came out the other side here with a despair/hope kind of thing, we think! All I know is, Bogna is not only beautiful and amazingly talented, she is also incredibly sweet and kind. I adore her and was glad to have the chance to partner with her! I am a bit disappointed in my image as I feel I let my fears about 'living up' to Quizz prevent me from going all out and trying harder.

Week 4 - Fresh - sadandbeautiful (sarah) and Heather Evans Smith (hsmithphotography)

hes- This was a hard theme for me. How to convey fresh? I went with a fresh face / body type of theme and was delighted to see Sarah's citrus shots. The droplets tied both the photos in nicely, only a tweak of the colors was done to make the images work well together.

Week 3 - shadows - sadandbeautiful (Sarah) & Juliet Home

Sarah (left) and I (right) decided to not decide on anything ahead of time. When we were ready, we both came to the table with several options, and these black and white images went together eerily well. Her letter shadows speak to my shadowy self left down in the pantry.

Week 1 - sadandbeautiful (Sarah) & the melody censor - kiss

Top: the melody censor
Bottom: sadandbeautiful (Sarah)

During the discussion for this collaboration, Sarah and I agreed that we were having a difficult time come up with ideas that didn't come across as cliche. Apart from that we only made choices on format of the photos (square) and if they should be b&w or colour. When she sent me her images to put the diptych together, I was shocked, and pleased at how well the 2 photos went together without any creative discussion!

She mentioned that her idea cam from some old movies (of her grandfather's?), and looking at them brought "kiss me like they do in the movies" to mind. I toyed with a couple of different ideas before settling on the shorthand version of kiss/hug, xo.

~Susan