1. In this photo series, Blake Little submerged models, varying in age from one to eighty-three, in buckets of honey. Little used a low ISO for these photos. The quality and sharpness is remarkable. He also used a fast shutter speed, to capture the dripping of the honey. The choice to submerged the models in honey is interesting and aesthetically pleasing. The way the honey smoothes over the body to hide all the creases and wrinkles. The lighting in these photos are great. The honey, giving the body the same color all over, is very reflective and makes the high lights even brighter and the shadows even darker; it causes great contrast in light.
2. Blake Little chose to submerged his models in honey because it made the "individual identities become secondary." The honey, in a way, transformed everyone into one another. They resembled one another. The focus of these photos are the contours of the bodies and the highlights/shadows, not the actual people themselves.
3. When I first saw the series, I was a little disturbed. My first thought was, "That must feel gross." Then as I looked at each picture, I noticed that they were all different, but still the same. Each picture was about the color of the honey, the smoothness it cascaded, the movement of the bodies and the highlights/shadows that seemed to appear more intense than usual.
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