For a few weeks I’ve been brainstorming ideas for a miniature photo studio in my small one bedroom apartment. I’m very happy with my little space and my dining-room-turned-craft-office, and new life in Los Angeles, but the one gripe I have is the minimal natural light. I know, right… I come from a place of gray skies ten months out of the year (I hear Seattle is beautiful right now, and I am a little homesick but that’s for a different day…) to southern California, and complain that there isn’t enough sun. My apartment just doesn’t get it.
I’ve been mulling over the idea of papering a wall with book pages, because since I no longer have a back yard (or lovely overgrown pathway next to my house), it’s going to be hard to take consistent photographs. I was fooled by a beautiful vine-covered wall (of which there are many here) directly near me – the perfect spot – which collapsed and was dragged away immediately after my discovery. Sigh.
So here we are. I’ve had this field guide to flowers for months and hadn’t any real plans for it. It’s just full full of amazing illustrations. But I really needed it for this wall! It was the perfect thing. Vintage book page text wasn’t bright enough, interesting enough, cheery enough… I wouldn’t have done it if it had been published prior to the 1980s, but it is an 80s book. I hope I meet another copy one day.
Until then I’ll take great care of the pages that adorn a little portion of one of my few walls. I took some test pictures… still working on editing so each piece I photograph contrasts appropriately. I hope to use this backdrop for E. Magnolia., as I am still rethinking Garden & Sea. And of course, anything else that needs photographing.
What do you think?
Too badd about your newly discovered wall, but I think those bookpages make for a great backdrop. I especially like the close up.
Photography is really hard if you don’t have a lot of natural light, I feel for you… sometimes those overcast glowy gray days are the best for pictures.
But I love your wall!! I think you did a great job sweetie, and it fits perfectly with your style too. Can’t wait to see what else you come up with. xo.
What a great idea! I think it turned out beautifully! I hear you on trying to find a good spot for photos, indoors especially!
i LOVE it!
good!!! I hope this goes with our other backgrounds!
I’m absolutely in love with how you used these floral book pages for your walls – such a genius (and affordable) idea. Hopefully you’ll stumble across another guide soon!
And I have a dream of moving to the Pacific Northwest within the next three years so hearing you talk about being homesick makes me want to move there even more. 🙂
This is just beautiful! The background adds so much personality and color to the photos. I love the quirkiness to it and the touch of nerdy chic since they are technical botanical illustrations.