desolate photos on Flickr

I had a tough time with this item. Although Arizona is one of the least densely populated states you have to leave the valley to find really desolate places. We have roughly 57 people per square mile, as opposed to NJ that has 1,189 people per sq. mile. A lot of the land here is Indian Reservations. Or state owned. And most of the people live in the Phoenix area.

I found this dead end road on an Indian reservation. The Gila Indian reservation runs on the south of Phoenix. Not a very big reservation. There is nothing here. The Indians farm some of the land but most of it is just bare desert.

Of course they do have a Casino.

Desolate by JolieVoice

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Came upon this pond with my photog friend, Jim. It's only there in the winter; in summer, it's dry. It was so cold, I could see my breath and barely use my fingers to work the camera. Winter, 2005.

Desolation Wilderness by Kenneth Dong

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Desolation Wilderness with Zsolt

Desolate by boocarter

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P8220188_1030 by Troop 186 - Seattle

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Desolation Sound Aug 2008

desolation sound aug 2008

Desolation Danny by Jason Nathan

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Desolation. by Sam NG

Deconstructing the image

In this picture, I use two objects to scale and to put into a comparison. Not the comparison made in time, but the comparison between past and present. To illustrate the idea:

The name “Desolation”

The definition of the word means: a state of complete emptiness or destruction, a great unhappiness or loneliness.

In context: The great disturbance of thoughts and emptiness when losing something irreplaceable and longing for its return to the eternity while death is slowly grasping on the main object’s feet.

The objects

•The main object: I chose the trees with grown leaves and exposing roots to show the length of life time of the main object, and its existence.

•The secondary object: I chose the pot as the same as the main object but without the plant to expressively provide substance to compare and add comparison to the image.

•The shadows: there are few set up shadows, I used to provide unity and emphasize the idea of existence and no longer existed.

The composition of object

•I used the triangular composition to help connecting the unity of the objects while strongly show the comparison between objects. The former glorious of the main subject (as the shadow appears to be bigger but blurred), the existences between the main object and secondary object (one which has been reduced in sight of the past and once has been reduced to nothingness), the iconic present of the secondary objects the significant relationship between the secondary object to the main objects and the main object’s shadow (demonstrated in the size of secondary object and its shadow is relatively bigger than the main object and its shadow).

•The parallel between main object and secondary object is used to show the comparison while adding the relationship of unbreakable bond and unreachable of the objects. Distanced by the space between the two.

The color theme

The color theme, I used original black and white color and strong contrasted theme, to increase the dramatic resolve of the picture. Together with the objects, the theme demonstrated the feeling of lost, grieve, missing and somewhat longingly to nothingness. I try to express the incomprehensible and expressible feeling of losing something irreplaceable, while also longing desperately for its return.

The background

The background theme, I used old wooden table as 2/3 of the background, noticing the unsymmetrical pattern of scratches, holds, and dirt. This is to expressively add the provision the sense of time ravaging. The other left of the background is dominantly black and some light pattern to demonstrate the length of field to the faraway and unknown place, and more or less into the void.

Desolate by Matthew Benjamin Coleman

Location: Stratford, London E15, England

P1010301_1410 by Troop 186 - Seattle

Desolation Sound Aug 2008

desolation sound aug 2008

Desolation by Kenny Stoltz

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While we were riding through Camargue we were making jokes about how utterly un-savages (wild) the place was, but looking at the pictures, it was pretty damn savages, especially considering this is still Provence. Not only this but the land ran the variety of this sort of desolate emptiness to green rice fields and greenish pastures full of cows.

desolation row @ silvershot by jade pegler

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some of my sculptures in the show IT"S PAINTING SO IT MUST BE GERMAN at Silvershot, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. More on desolation row at spectrescope.blogspot.com/

P1010270_1478 by Troop 186 - Seattle