Beach diary continued

Sunday 13th March
10.30. Beach. Sunny blue skies. Clear Spring day. No breeze. Many dogs.
Held up paper Tyvek form to see if it caught the breeze more easily than organza. It didn't.
Liked the way it toned in with sea and skies. Goldsworthy waited for sea to wash over his sculptures but I don't want mine destroyed just yet! Definitely needs string, sky, another person and wind!! Too many people and dogs. Felt silly!
Re: Andy Goldsworthy. Am thinking his influence is maybe a distraction from what I'm really about. At the end of the day, his photos are used to record almost scientifically, and aren't in any way abstract. A means to an end, whereas my photos might be  the end. I find the photos in the stream more interesting than the ones with an obvious beach background. I've got 2 separate things going on:

1. Goldsworthy object in natural setting, like his sea cairns. Static, but with Nature washing over it.
2. The beauty, light and balance of abstract photographs of my pieces.

Which is more closely linked to an "emotional response" to setting?

 Like the composition, does have a "mood", but don't find as interesting as really abstract, close-up photos.

Is this as successful as the same form photographed, no background?

Still want to capture the frantic energy of the paper form in strong wind - like a creature trying to wrestle free. Maybe I'm doing two different things with video and photographs?

5pm

Beach. Dogs in car. Empty sands. Just after hail-storm. Late afternoon sun silver on wet sand. Light rain through sun. Beautiful.

1. Used camcorder to film wire-form in dunes, grass and sea back-drop. Scrappiness right for setting. Tissue caught wind. OK.
2. Filmed organza piece in wet sand by tide. Slowly, gently sweeping in. Reflection. Footprint in sand. Form looked beautiful and lost. Reminded me of Monet's waterlilies. Sense of utter piece. Lovely. Felt completely "right" at the time. Abstract effect. Tried zooming in. Over-exposed but rather too much light than too less.Need to alter next time and use tripod but needs to be low.
3. Filmed perspex form in fast-moving stream. Tide and stream full of ripples and movement, glittering in the silver sun. Perfect. Strange how you get a sense of stillness and movement all at once. Perspex attracted the light. (And waterproof so practical.)

No sound when played back! Don't know why! Rang technician but he didn't know either.

Too much light - need to do that white card thing first. Turn down exposure.

Too much hand-shake. Must work out how to use tripod in caravan.

Movement in light and water just as good as movement in air. What about clouds? Filming beneath object to capture clouds drifting by...

Have no idea how to get film from little tape thing into lap-top via you-tube onto this blog! Defeats me. Need to book yet more inductions - editing suite. Will add film later.