It's Been a While...

2 February 2025

Welcome 2025!

I know, I know, it's February now, but I read somewhere that January is a trial month. I think I'll continue on with the adventure.

This year looks a little different for me, with a new job (slight career change... again). I'm missing my flower time, so I decided to set myself a weekly challenge of some kind just to keep my hand in. After chatting with a colleague a week or so ago I have a few ideas, and I was also a bit inspired to get back into the blogging. Hence, you're reading this. We'll see how that goes...

Anyway, the first challenge I set myself was to make something with a single bunch of supermarket flowers.

All that was available at the time were sunflowers and chryssies (three of each in the bunch - see photo), which made the challenge a little easier than what I was expecting, which was a single stem of everything.

I'm working on my Visual Diary for my Diploma of Photography and Digital Imaging, and needed an image demonstrating unity, so a photo of a floral design made sense to me. Two birds, one stone.

I'm using the opportunity to work foam-free where I can, so I'm investigating different ways to get stability within the designs. I'm also looking at utilising what I have around, so there will be lots of repurposing, and I hope creative use of resources.

I knocked some frangipani flowers off the tree while I was mowing (it's a small tree), so I think next week's challenge will include frangipani. I've not worked with them before, and I rarely see them used, so it will definitely be a learning experience. Stay tuned for that one.

The Module I'm currently working on for my Diploma is Visual Communication and it's mostly about the Elements and Principles of Design, which is of course, the essence of floral design. There's a lot in the course and this particular module has quite a large Visual Diary component which requires lots of images. It's giving me a lot of content that looks quite different from what is normally through my lens. After I submit these assessments for marking I will have four modules remaining. If I can apply myself a little better than I previously have been I will hopefully have it finished by the end of the year. Maybe posting an image a week might keep me accountable. Wish me luck!

It’s been quite a party, ain’t it

Purple Fairy