I was walking down the street and noticed the broken up asphalt of the pavement. It was so unusual — there had to be an image there!
So I pulled out my new cardboard viewfinder and started looking. Showing broken asphalt only was nice and abstract, but too boring. Adding the curb in the upper-left corner was better, but not well balanced. Finally I went for a vertical composition that shows four different pavement textures. I quite like the strong lines leading up and to the right, as well as the alternating strength of the patterns: strong, weak, strong, weak.
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Quite an obscure photo. Wonderfully natural for black and white photo.
Hi, thanks for the comment! I wonder what you mean by “obscure”. Is “obscure” good or bad?
[...] of “Pavement Patterns” 15 09 2007 I’ve been playing with the image in “Pavement Patterns” on and off for a few days now, and I never seem to get done with it. Maybe this need for tinkering [...]
Obscure is unique and very different. I love it. I only get a chance to look at things in a different perspective through the eyes of someone else, because my life is filled with chaos most of the time. I rarely get to stop and smell the roses, so to say. Do you have more picts to post? You can send them to my email at work too.
I am very sorry, but isn’t this diagonal composition?
Hi Ang3lic — yes, you are right, the composition is diagonal. By “vertical” I meant “vertical orientation”, as opposed to “horizontal orientation.”