Annotation

Carsten Peter

Taken in Inlands, Greenland in 1995, this colour photohraphy image is of 3 people climbing back up the deepest ice shaft on the planet. This photo may suggest that these people like to go on adventures and discover and see extraordinary things. From the position the image has been taken in it looks like the photographer was also climbing up and has taken this of his friends climbing up to show them all on this adventure as well as to show how deep it was. In a way the lighting of the image goes from darkest at the bottom to bright at the top. The position this has been taken in also shows how far down they was and the perspective shows how big this ice shaft is because the people that are further up than he is are almost impossible to see. I like this image because although it is a simple image, to me it shows a big story in this one image and shows a lot about this photographer and his friends, and also shows a lot about the ice shaft that they had climbed into.

This photograph taken close to vents of an active volcano after a hazardous descent down an almost vertical, fragile 1,476 feet deep crater, also shows adventure as well as danger. I like the way this photo has been captured with the black silhouette of two men at the bottom then all the colour above this of what looks to be the eruption of the volcano which is a different contrast of colours. I also like the moment in which the photographer has caught the volcano erupting and how it looks. It is a very dark and dangerous photograph but at the same time there is also brightness and colour. The image displays that these two men, or maybe women, have dangerously been down a deep crater and are now coming up out of it and have seen this volcano erupting.

The top image which is of the effect of a volcano which melted through the 1,968 feet deep ice cover which is Europe's biggest glacier because the heat of the volcano was intense. This image is a colour photography image but is a very dark image. I like this photograph because it looks dark and mysterious and the way he has caught this image from so far above it is possible to see the cold which shows that this was very high. The lighting in this image is a mixture of high and low lighting, the bottom is darker whereas the top is a little brighter where is it more cold. The blue and white colour portray the image that this is a very cold photograph. I would think that to take this picture a fast shutter speed would of been used because everything in the image has been caught still, nothing is being showed moving and there is not much light in this image. I think that for this image the photographers intentions like the two previous is adventure and to also show the effects what this volcano had on parts of the earth above this.

The bottom image has been exposed for three minutes on a moonlit night of a volcano which has lava half the heat of other volcanoes. This coloured photograph has a mixture of dark and light colours which gives this image a range of different lights. I do not like this image as when I look at it I don't know what to think or where to look, I think that there is no excitement in this image apart from the bright orange bits of lava, but apart from the lava I don't find anything about this picture interesting or anything that I like. By looking at this I cannot see the photographers intentions for this photograph or what the message is,