Monday 17 July - Journey to Tenby

Following my Dad's incident at work , his friend Pete came to pick him up on Wednesday and took him to Tenby where he lives so that Dad could have some rest and recuperation there. That also meant that Dad needed picking up again to come home as he wasn't allowed to drive.
On this Monday morning, Mum and I travelled to Tenby, setting off at 6:30am to go and get Dad. I photographed the journey to reflect upon when I got home later on that day.

My own photograph taken on the way to Tenby of the view ahead

Once we were in Wales, there were a lot of roadworks along our route. In this photograph there is contrast between the blue sky and the orange traffic cones. This disjointed line of orange leads the viewer's eye up the photograph towards the bridge ahead, then to the hills and the sky. The sky amounts for half of the photograph and so the blue is quite striking. I think there is a sense of harmony in this as there is contrast between colours and the white clouds and the white reflective strips on the traffic cones bring a balance to this photograph as a whole. There is a geometrical theme running through this photograph - for example, the curved bridge, the cones and the traffic signs - which creates a feeling of structure. Giving that there is new work being done on the roads, it also gives a sense of organisation as our man-made environment becomes more modern and more durable as thousands of people use our roads every day.

My own photograph of the sky taken on the way to Tenby

Untitled - 1970

Mark Tobey

The sky here reminded me of Mark Tobey's artwork in terms of the way that line is used.

The white lines in the sky are created by aeroplanes and so some lines cross, this links to Tobey as in his artwork, he layers different marks to create a composition. Furthermore, the sky creates the background of this photograph which has some tonal representation, similar to how Tobey's backgrounds are one colour but include other tonal aspects. Also, in Untitled 1970 (shown above), there are hazy areas of colour in the background which look similar to the wispy clouds in my photograph. I am going to use this photograph as inspiration when working in the style of Mark Tobey next time, I am going to combine Tobey's techniques with aspects of my photograph.