by fossil hunting 4
These are the final group of photos taken in the Royal Tyrrell Musum. Now I hope they will bubble and stir and come forth in some future work. Some have already done so in the past.
Should you have missed them, information and more images can be seen in part 1, part 2 and part 3.
July 12, 2012 in Nature, Photoworks, Rocks by Marja-Leena
All these photos of fossils are intriguing. Fossils are such magical entities – Nature’s printmaking!
Olga, yes, nature’s printmaking indeed! Wouldn’t it also be amazing to try inking and printing a real fossil onto paper? Photo-etching then printing fossil images is the closest I’ve come to this.
Managed to sign in without problems. Hurray. As you know found art is just my thing. I’m always looking for it, often with success. Those damp strips are beautiful. I know I’m in the wrong post. I Like the fossils too. I tend to identify with them nowadays.
Joe, hurray, glad you made it! We do have common interests in found art and fossils (but I resist identifying with the latter, heh).
This is what I wanted to comment on before — I just love these photographs. Fossils stop me in my tracks; I always look at them with awe and wonder, especially the intact skeletons enclosed in rock which was once the mud where they died…it’s hard to imagine this reality and just how old they are. I look forward to what they’ll inspire in you in 2012, Marja-Leena!
Beth, awe and wonder indeed! I can’t get enough of these, and need to go visit places like the Tyrrell and out in nature. Photographing natural wonders inspire me. Who knows how and when these might emerge in my art works.
Ditto what Beth said! Looking forward to it.
And Joe is funny…
Marly, thanks.. I look forward to seeing how this all might come out in the future. And Joe is indeed funny in that quiet British way, a real sweetheart (I hope he doesn’t blush.)