Empty Space

A photo shouldn't need a title and a description to convey what it wants to convey, should it? Yet there is a place here where it says, please fill one in, and I don't like leaving them empty. It feels like publishing something unfinished.

 

A music album doesn't need cover art, strictly speaking. But it needs a cover to protect the record or the CD, and a cover without something on it is a space left empty and unused. If nothing else, you probably want to write on it the name of the album and who released it. And what it's about. And why not do that in a way, that's creative in itself. It's music, not an audio tutorial on how to repair a dishwasher. And even that would need some kind of label. Do bands need logos? I'd say no, but the well made ones always seem to represent the music in a visual way. Or is that just a metal thing?

 

In fact I'd say, even the simplest cover you could design, just printing the name and the author, requires a choice. Which font. Which color. How big the writing? Centered, in the top, in a corner?

 

Back to pictures... what do they even convey? Little more than "look at this place, this scene, this thing that I found. Nice, iddn' it?" Does that need a caption? Just a description what there is to see? Too simple still. Always finding a title, and not always the same for very similar pictures? Too difficult. And then they and up catching dust on the hard drive here.

 

But then, I turned this one here black and white, and reduced brightness. So apparently whatever the picture conveys, it needed adjusting. Perhaps the empty space is somewhere else entirely.

Done