Moonlight angels

Katica is living in our village and when I saw her in her front garden, I asked if I could take a photo. As always, I expect to be rejected, but she happily accepted. As the lockdown is over, I should go out and ask more :)

Moonlight angels

In my hallway, I have a triptych of an angel. I photographed her more than 15 years ago. Still on film, with my SL66. I remember me walking around Miragoj, admiring the statues, the beauty people built around (or may be for) their loved ones gone to another dimension. The images in my hall are soft, I most probably used a ‘softar’ from Zeiss, don’t remember, and still after so many years, I enjoy watching them.

And for all those years, I keep telling myself that I need to go back, to recreate the series or to photograph all the other statues worth photographed, but somehow, I never took the time to do so. Simply because somehow I had other priorities. Life does do that to us and it is ok. Artistic projects need to grow into ones mind.

This week, while photographing ‘pyramids’ in Zagreb, it came to me: I need to shoot those angels against a cloudy sky with long exposure to create an eternal feeling, preferable in infrared so the blue sky turns into a dark one, like I’m shooting in full moonlight. 

So here it is, a new series: moonlight angels.

To be clear, as I am not a fan to stroll around graveyards and (mid)night, images will be taken during daylight, long-exposure and processed to achieve the moonlight look.