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It occurred to me that one of the areas of photography that I frequently bypass is the mid-range view in favor of either the "big picture" or the macro. Ironically, this is probably the most common perspective we take when focusing our eyes on the world around us...a conclusion verified by studying and evaluating my own sight orientation on my recent walks.
With the open areas in full bloom with succeeding varieties of wildflowers, it provides a good opportunity to actually concentrate on the various elements of compositon which actually go into a shot like this. Frankly, it takes a lot more thought than just firing off at the sky or the lake or the trees or moving in for a closeup. Perhaps that's why I don't do it very often...thinking an activity of increasing frustration in my dotage and reminiscent of work which is now anathema.
In any event, here for your consideration, a series of images which actually resulted from some conscious attempt at composition. I have taken more and cannot say that I find them very striking...personal preferences and taste obviously also impacting composition. A worthwhile and interesting exercise nonetheless, requiring much more practice.
If you look closely, particularly in the comment images, you will see an abundance of small skipper butterflies which made for pleasant companions.
Compositionally Challenged week 9 is Rule of Odds.
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I can't remember the name of this little blue-green evergreen, but it sends out new growth in threes.
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I took this photo in Katowice, South of Poland. It was a fresh morning, I was walking
with my friend Michał and we found this little pond with some trees in the background.
The light in the horizon was very soft and generated a nice reflection in the water.
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Embroidery
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Embroidery of the forest
On to the fields of time
The wings of gray achiest
All in their grayness prime
Of dreams that once were
In the moments like drift
When summertime was near
In ways of its open whiffed
Foliage of winter falling
Thru steps of time’s thread
When gloom shades are calling
In tints of their brownish red
And day is shorter becoming
In each their light of rise
On earth open blossoming
That to the winter cold dies
Draperies of their burgeon lay
That fetches old rustic bled
When the forest murky play
Its wilderness meadows bed
Oh forest my old trail forest
In all the traditions you hold
Once proud habits of the florist
Now ´ss in ashen winter’s cold
A composition for Week 16 - Pattern Interrupted - set by the Compositionally Challenged Group.
A variation on Lesley's idea.
After Piet Mondriaan
Composition with grid 5
lozenge, composition with colors
7 days of shooting
Week #16
Shelves
Geometry sunday
Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914:
"Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man."
He was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which he co-founded with Theo van Doesburg.