Uncommon places - Walden
There I sat on that old moss covered half rotted log trying to figure out the best way to photograph this location. The heady odors of the evening forest were quite intoxicating.
It was that alluring blue tarp which initially attracted me, but the longer I sat there the more I became aware of the transparency and presence of the space. I read David Henry Thoreau’s Walden as a young man and recall how his woods possessed an independent character.
That blue tarp is trying its best to absorb all the attention, but the forest with all its banal elements is holding its own.
So in line with my recent exploration of Stephen Shore’s tenants of enveloping space I decided to us space as my leading compositional element.
I also employed Meyerowitz’s adage not to put anything in the center of your frame. If I had moved left that open center “space” would have been extinguished and the scene more compressed.
Uncommon places - Walden
There I sat on that old moss covered half rotted log trying to figure out the best way to photograph this location. The heady odors of the evening forest were quite intoxicating.
It was that alluring blue tarp which initially attracted me, but the longer I sat there the more I became aware of the transparency and presence of the space. I read David Henry Thoreau’s Walden as a young man and recall how his woods possessed an independent character.
That blue tarp is trying its best to absorb all the attention, but the forest with all its banal elements is holding its own.
So in line with my recent exploration of Stephen Shore’s tenants of enveloping space I decided to us space as my leading compositional element.
I also employed Meyerowitz’s adage not to put anything in the center of your frame. If I had moved left that open center “space” would have been extinguished and the scene more compressed.