Rectangular Patterns (Vertical)
“Rectangular Patterns (Vertical)” — Patterns formed by light, paing, shadows, and structure on an urban building.
This is the second in a series of three photographs that I made on a walk that took me through an area of urban renewal in my town. A large corporate concern committed to some very extensive building plans, then backed off during the pandemic period, and now seems to be trying to, in my view, make it look like something is happening when perhaps not much really is. They have painted buildings and put up interesting interpretive signs. To their credit, this is better than simply letting the properties fall further into decay.
I’m very attracted to strong graphic forms and colors — which I suppose might surprise some who think of me as a landscape photographer. But I don’t see any conflict, and I feel that the interest in such forms underlies quite a few of my landscaping images, even though it is possible to look at them primarily as being “pictures of nature.”
Rectangular Patterns (Vertical)
“Rectangular Patterns (Vertical)” — Patterns formed by light, paing, shadows, and structure on an urban building.
This is the second in a series of three photographs that I made on a walk that took me through an area of urban renewal in my town. A large corporate concern committed to some very extensive building plans, then backed off during the pandemic period, and now seems to be trying to, in my view, make it look like something is happening when perhaps not much really is. They have painted buildings and put up interesting interpretive signs. To their credit, this is better than simply letting the properties fall further into decay.
I’m very attracted to strong graphic forms and colors — which I suppose might surprise some who think of me as a landscape photographer. But I don’t see any conflict, and I feel that the interest in such forms underlies quite a few of my landscaping images, even though it is possible to look at them primarily as being “pictures of nature.”