çatalhöyük
Burcu and Ian discuss excavation plans in Building 77 (North Area) during the last days of the 2013 season. In the foreground, Renata cleans her area for a photo.
Some of my photos documenting Çatalhöyük were featured in a New York Times slideshow. The related article by Susanne Fowler is Into the Stone Age With a Scalpel: A Dig With Clues on Early Urban Life.
Çatalhöyük on Facebook
Finally all those interested in the excavations at Çatalhöyük, from team members to the general public, can now connect together on Facebook.
Building 80 QTVR, originally uploaded by catalhoyuk.
After posting a QTVR of Building 80 from this past summer's excavation season to the Çatalhöyük website, I thought I'd also share the flattened equirectangular 360 image it was based upon.
After coming across friend and colleague Colleen Morgan's post about artifact photo scales, I thought I'd throw in my two cents on the subject.
Scales in archaeological photography are an ongoing curiosity for me. As necessary as they are to give a sense of size to the photos' subject, it so often appears that little attention is given to their proportion and composition in the photograph. It's as if a larger and more dominant scale is meant to give the image more scientific weight and credibility. But to me, photos taken in this matter reflect a lack of care and attention to detail, that ends up distracting from the artifact's representation. Maybe my photographic eye is being too hyper-critical, but I would say a little extra attention to the details of scale size and placement can make a big difference in how the arifact photo is viewed and appreciated down the line.
To help in this endeavor, here's a scale template I've made in Adobe Illustrator which you can print out on photo paper and cut out for use.
Download: Scales.pdf
Anies Photo Recording, originally uploaded by Miss_Colleen.
Was surprised to see some of my photos being used for a comic! That's brilliant! I kind of envisioned something like this when I took the shots, but never bothered to do anything with them myself. Glad to see they've been found and put to use!
