By way of a reminder, as it's been on hiatus for a while: Black Widow Honey, Stephanie Whiteside's and my ongoing tarot art project, is posting new work! We're looking at wrapping up the posting of the last of the major arcana in the coming month or two, and will then be choosing the exact … Continue reading Black Widow Honey
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The Fool
The Majors have arrived! After a rather long and only semi-planned hiatus (sometimes life intervenes), we are back on the photography bandwagon, and at the time of this writing, are 18 photoshoots from the end. I... don't even know what I'm going to do with myself when this project is over. I guess start one … Continue reading The Fool
Journey Into The Tarot
So, it's been kind of a (very) long time since I've posted anything here about Black Widow Honey's ongoing tarot project- Stephanie and I ended up taking a longer-than-anticipated hiatus because, well, life. But we have now shot the first four of the Major Arcana, hooray! And we're making steady progress. You can check out … Continue reading Journey Into The Tarot
King of Coins
We shot the King of Coins on the same day as the Queen of Coins, as you may notice by the overlap in the bounteous feast in the photos. They're similar cards in feel (at least to me), the main difference being that the Queen is internally concerned (abundance and protection of the self, the … Continue reading King of Coins
Queen of Coins
The Queen of Coins was a fun, and relatively easy shoot, and thank goodness for it. We did have some trouble with costuming, because we're getting to the point in the cards where we've used pretty much everything in both our closets (and some of our friends') at least once, but Stephanie found this green … Continue reading Queen of Coins
Knight of Coins
The Knight of Coins, like all the knights, was a little difficult to initially decide on how to capture. Knights, to me, anyway, are all about movement- the transmission of information, messages, change in the air. I felt like we captured that very well with the other three knights, actually, but it did take some … Continue reading Knight of Coins
Page of Coins
The Page of Coins is probably the most dangerous card we've shot in a while, in terms of "the photographer may break her neck" possibilities. As with most of the other "don't try this at home, kids" shots, this involved me needing to be higher in the air than Stephanie, so that I could shoot … Continue reading Page of Coins
Ten of Coins
Finally- the Ten of Coins! *sound of trumpets blaring* The Ten of Coins is the card that made us plow through the rest of the coins in about a month- Stephanie very much wanted to do it around her birthday, and do it with her friend who would be visiting for said birthday in the … Continue reading Ten of Coins
Nine of Coins
The Nine of Coins was one of those cards that Stephanie and I did not agree on how to interpret; in this case, pretty much at all. But I think that we succeeded in creating images that allow for either of our interpretations, which is good. We shot in the Oakland Rose Garden for this, … Continue reading Nine of Coins
Eight of Coins
The Eight of Coins was a bit of a difficult one in deciding how we were going to portray it. Unlike some of the others, we didn't have any disagreements about what we wanted to convey, but rather were struggling with how to represent it without repeating too much of any of our prior images. … Continue reading Eight of Coins
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