black cats
ladders
mirrors (check)
and then i thought, what is the most superstitious thing?
to me i would have to say birds. With hundreds of superstitions about the actitivies of birds i did wonder what exactly had possessed me not to think about this earlier. From a murder of crows and what the number means, to the sighting of a robin before winter, there is literally hundreds of different superstitons out there.
For example:
http://hubpages.com/hub/birds-myths-superstitions-about-birds
I wanted to use one of the less obvious then counting crows or magpies.
Looking into it, supposidly the determination of what way that birds calling determins what is going to happen, the saying goes:
A bird call from the north means tragedy; from the south is good for crops; from the west is good luck; from the east, good love.
For this i did wonder what on earth i could do for imagery, until i found the perfect spot for shooting. In town the old town hall has a weathervain that has the N,S,E,W and is always surrounded by birds. Here i decided to lay in wait until the birds either formed around the vain (sat around it) or flew around it with some great results.
While the first image is still slightly blurred, these were the best out of the selection. i did want a pairing of images to be able to create a good look over a double spread. But after reviewal ive decided that the bottom two are my fave. The middle image because of the encorperation of the weather vane, the sihouetted birds and buildings against the unsual sky, while the second image is just a close up of the birds all in freeze framed. This allows me to try out one of the techniques that i looked at in the books that i looked at, Jim Dines book, where the text is layered ontop of the image, the blank space in the middle allowing the text to sit nicely.
As for the text, i was thinking of simply,
NORTH
EAST
SOUTH
WEST
pulling the audiences eye to the weather vain on the other image and the link to the birds.
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