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I wanted to compare images with scenes/objects of a surreal nature on their own, with images of the same nature yet with normality fused in it - in this case, unknowing passers-by. The above image isolates this strange formality of 'vacuuming' up sand, an apparent mad-man perhaps viewed to some. Upon observing them as they passed this scene, the initial reaction was confusion. However the image captured was their continuation onwards, and the scene now unfolds as if this oddity of someone vacuuming a beach is now a normality; one could perhaps go as far as saying this is some other-universe where people are hired to vacuum up sand? Who knows, to myself it's an intriguing picture.

Upon setting up the scenes I brought along my partner to help. Initially I just wished to photograph the objects I had brought along with myself, but seeing this dark figure in a frame with this white pair of legs I found some sense of mirroring opposition. Not only with the obvious black vs. white, but upside-down vs. standing, male vs. female, full body vs. half, strange vs. complete/normal. With this, teamed with this empty, baron landscape it unfolds to be some strange stand-off, perhaps? 

Another attempt at bringing in normality (walkers-by), but I believe less successful. Not framed as well as previous, the legs are right up front in frame - fairly blunt to the eye. It'd be more surreal if there were legs sprouting out the sand all down the beach, whilst the passers-by seem oblivious to, or unfazed even. 

I wanted to experiment with one 'beauty shot', as it were. Following the typical landscape shot with expansing distance, clouds soaring above and long reaching shadows - yet stuck in  this view is again, a pair of legs sprouting out of the sand. The reason for doing so? Does my reason really matter to the person questioning the photograph?

In a previous shoot I attempted to place a mannequin in water, as if emerging from its surface. This was another attempt, yet with a larger expanse in frame with little detail. With this minimalistic style, all attention goes to the only object in frame. The original photograph was flipped, and I positioned myself so the are 'standing' on the horizon line, as it were. An interesting image, but I ask myself what I think of it and personally not much comes to mind, so perhaps a fairly boring photograph? To others I do not know, but I feel an emptiness in this image. Interesting, but co-existingly boring nonetheless.