Photography, graphic design & stationery
Photographs in commission or delivered from the large photo archive of three decades black-and-white and colour photography of Adriana Sjan Bijman. Specialised in nature, flowers and ecology, landscapes,community life at the Findhorn Foundation Community, people as well as organic farming and gardening. Archive with photography about the womens movement, squatting- and peace movement in the 70s and 80s. Adriana Sjan Bijman's beautiful photographs have been used on Record/CD/DVD covers, posters, leaflets, websites and magazines in Europe over many years.
The favourite photographs of 2009 per month
Through whole 2009 I chose monthly a favourite photo I had made. Here you'll see them all twelve.
Adriana
January favourite:
One of the amazing late morning sunrises midwinter at The Park
February favourite:
“Surrendering” was the sign on my caravan at The Park. It also was the Year Angel for 2009 for the Findhorn Foundation Community. And, we had to do just that when it unexpectedly started to snow.
March favourite:
I ‘dived’ into a field of wild snowdrops at the Hermitage Woods in Perthshire in Scotland. They are so clearly not just flowers, but real living beings.
April favourite:
Pebble row at Findhorn Beach. This was my favourite image made during a Beach Pebble Project. Its simplicity touched
May favourite:
Play of Fire around Beltane, a celtic Festival celebrated on the 1st of May, at the Pier in Findhorn Village. Some young people were having fun and making great figures with fire. Caught in a circle.
June 2009 favourite:
Summer's sensuality: June was a lovely month in the north anyway, but I am sure we can be taken aback by sensuality all year through. The colours, shapes and skin ... almost touchable ... made this a favourite for me.
July 2009 favourite:
Painter's colours at Mac Duff Shipyard. An image from a series around the Boat Festival in July at Portsoy and Banff, two of the lovely, picturesque towns at the Scottish Moray Firth and northeast coast. Next to the show and the sailing boats, here was a place from daily life in the shipyard – trying out the colours for the boats.
August favourite
Baby Blessing Ceremony at Findhorn. The minister prepared himself for the blessing while the baby himself waiting, had a different way to express the sacredness.
September favourite
Fuzzy with Fungi: Doing a series about mushrooms and fungi this autumn, I chose this detailed close-up because of its structures and delicateness.
October 2009 favourite:
Banyan tree at La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I know these trees from India, and again while seeing this one, I was in awe of this beautiful tree. I like the large leaves in front and the symmetry.
November 2009 favourite:
Red leaves of a Smoke tree at windy Findhorn. Trees show their shapes in a totally different way during the wintertime. Just before releasing its leaves, this Smoke tree held on to them in a storm. I moved with them.
December 2009 favourite:
Heavy frost and fog changed the landscape of the Findhorn dunes into a fairy land.