week 4:Freezing flowers and paint in ice

 Various flowers were collected from my garden, and were frozen in a plastic pot. I have captured the details of the flowers and patterns of the ice which I think are fascinating and quite mysterious in a way because of the cold colours in the first image.
It was difficult at times when trying to capture a close up as the ice began to melt, so I had to take as many photographs when the ice had slightly melted. I have intended to take abstract photos which I think I have executed well, especially with the second photo. This image can be interpreted in many different ways; It's quite hard to tell that it's a red flower frozen in ice. For some it seems like blood because of dark shades of red, and for others it looks like a landscape of fiery red trees reflected in a river.
If these photos were shown on a larger scale, they would look mesmerising.











 I have taken another set of photographs with paint combined with ice. I was inspired by Cliff Briggie's work. The detail of the ice has been captured well in both images, but the paint isn't very visible in the first photo. It was quite difficult taking a photo of the paint with the ice as the paint was dripping down the ice very quickly.
 The first image seems very abstract as the ice at the bottom seems cut off and underneath you can see a dark red line which seems like a dark tunnel; This creates a mysterious atmosphere. The ice reminds me of a close up of a white petal as the texture seems quite smooth and the bottom part of it seems as though it's flicking upwards, which is how a petal is shaped.
In the second image, the paint seems like vains because of the thin coloured lines of blue, purple and red.