The Haining reflections

My class and me went to the Haining in Hawick again, this time to join some artists attending a workshop on reflections. We started by touring the grounds again and I decided to take some photos as it was a really nice, sunny day.

I tried to keep the theme 'reflections' in my photos. I took some panoramic photos aswell, which was pretty fun and I think the images came out well. A class mate and me bumped into an artists called Dorian, who is a architecture tutor in Edinburgh. Dorian was working on a little project trying to capture the feeling of rain in the water with glass tubes reflecting the sun and suspending glass slabs with string. I helped by trying to attach string to the glass. It was really hard as the string was not strong enough to support the glass so unfortunately we ran out of time and had to leave before we could see the finial result, but I did grab a few photos and a video before we left.

We then went back to the building and were shown a bit of glass work, I decided to play around with the glass cutting into it and making marks on glass. I decided to play around with it and use it to take photos, I held it up against the light...

and coloured glass...

And the window...

Then when we were leaving I noticed another artists projecting his photographs on the walls so I tried to take photos of them through the glass I made, I found this quite interesting.

I then went outside and used to again on landscapes and another class mate.

It was quite fun doing this, I liked helping and talking to the other artists. I don't think I will work again with glass anytime soon as it was very tricky. But I did manage to find my interest in it! Sometimes I find that hard to do, so that's good.

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