Light Scrap

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Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on July 4, 2012 at 11:23am

That is one of my favorite types of work!

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 4, 2012 at 1:25am

Bore me? Not at all! I love all the juicy details and cultural history is so interesting ... as is the play of light on objects :-) I love captured moments that hold a lot more information that what meets the eye!

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on July 3, 2012 at 11:20am

Sorry that it's taken me so long to get back here, Maryanne.  I've been on a interweb/faceworld hiatus for a couple of weeks now and I'm slowly catching up.

  This photo is of a scrap of light (thus the title) which was shining into my hallway onto the face of a poster which is actually a Japanese archaeology calendar.  What you are seeing is a small section of Jomon pottery which dates to about 8000 B.C.  Jomon translates to "cord marked", but many other utensils and tools were utilized to bring about the decorative qualities of these particular ceramics.  Much of the pottery found in the Americas is also cord marked, but not nearly as ornate as the Jomon type you almost see here.  The origins of Jomon were almost certainly from the Korean peninsula, but the Japanese often have a hard time admitting to this possibility. They used to refer to the Koreans as "garlic eaters" and held them in very low esteem. 

  As for the composition of this piece, I love to play with low, variable light sources and the subject matter will often give the photograph a little added juice in the form of a history lesson.  I hope you like this work and I also hope I didn't bore you with too much blather about the history of it. ;-)

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on June 24, 2012 at 8:04pm

More information please sir :-) I love the contrast between light and dark and is this a scrap of?