Through Your Eyes Inspiration Project

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London

I am part of a group of women photographers from around the globe. We are banded together to inspire, help each other, promote growth and share our experiences in a positive environment.

We recently undertook a project where we used an image as inspiration, to create our own piece of art. I helped formulate this idea for the group, and it was fantastic to be able to choose an image I thought we could all appreciate. We posted this blurb to our social media pages to explain to everyone what it was we were doing.

“Through Your Eyes is a group of women photographers, from around the Globe, who are all at different stages of the photographic journey. What we all have in common is a desire to bring about “change” to our industry. To help build each other up, to educate, support and enjoy being photographers, together. We have many discussions and topics that we cover, and one of them recently was Inspiration. So Jo from JG Images in Bathurst came up with the idea for Through Your Eyes Inspiration project (that’s me!). We all have one base image that Jo found which belongs to the most incredibly talented Ira Zhuyka Dzhul a Ukraine photographer. We all gained inspiration from her image, and have all over the last few months created our own image. Tonight, especially for Harmony Day, each of us who was able to participate in the project will share on our pages the image that we have created. We will also share a link with you where you will be able to have a look at each of our images up on Flickr and for those of you that don’t have a Flickr account, we’ll each put up a story board which will show you all of our images. Everyone see’s images we absolutely love and think to ourselves “Ohhh I want to do that”…..that’s inspiration, when we take that inspiration and create our very own image with our very own thoughts and ideas added to that inspiration….well, that’s creating Art!” (Written by Tanya from Beyond the Spectrum Photography)

The original image by Ira Zhuyka Dzhul is below…

Image by Ira Zhuyka Dzhul

This was my piece that I created as inspired by the image above:

This is the work of all the photographers who participated in this round. I find it amazing that with one image, we were all able to create such different pieces of art, using a wide variety of photographic techniques. We all had our own vision for our creation.

We didn’t talk or share our ideas throughout the process, and this is the result. A collection of images involving a common theme, yet no photo is common.

I was truly pleased to be part of such a great movement and am very much looking forward to the next one.

If you would like to see the other works in full, please visit this page here. You can see each image full screen and read more about this group.

Below is a list of all the photographers that participated in this project, with links to their website and/or Facebook pages– please, visit them and see the wide variety of talented photographers we have in this world.

Website Kim McCue Photography  –  Facebook

Website Kelly M Photography – Facebook

Website Beyond the Spectrum Photography – Facebook

Website Brooke Michelle Photography – Facebook

Website Sam Derrett Photography – Facebook

Website Milani Photography – Facebook

Captured Moments by Sarah Jane on Facebook

Angela Crossman Photography on Facebook

Nicole Power Photography on Facebook

PuseyKat Photography on Facebook

Jessica Purvis Photography on Facebook

I’ll be sharing the rest of the images from the session I did to get my art piece in the future – I can’t wait to share them – I know my two models are desperate to see them!

Let me know what you thought of this project, and my image below!

Jo is a photographer servicing Bathurst and the surrounding areas. JG Images specialises in family and couples photography, but occasionally loves to dabble in personal projects to keep her creative brain ticking over. If you liked this project, you might like to see Project 52 – A collection of Images for 2015 – which is in progress now.