Jan. Project -- Minimalist
Here's another one that I'm not at all sure about.I was definitely going for a minimalist composition here - nothing much but fog and a bunch of pilings and their reflections.
posted by SteveR at 7:55 PM
8 comments
8 Comments:
Another nice one, Steve! As opposed to your Pier in Fog picture where the water and fog merge and disappear, the objects in the foreground serve to remind the viewer that this is more than just a row of lines in space, that it's actually water that we're looking at. Also, the gently angled line of the pilings lead to the interesting mish-mash of pilings at the end of the line. Very interesting shot.
--Warren
Your photos remind me of Michael McKenna's work, which tends to be minimalist using graphic elements. The photos are peaceful and serene almost to the point of being boring. But on the positive side, there is a market for this type of work.
Martin,
You really know your photographers. Do you spend a lot of time on reviewing stuff like that?
I just looked up Michael Mckenna, and I found an image similar to Steve's!
http://www.michaelkenna.net/html/japan02/17.html
--Warren
Martin, Warren,
Wow, that DOES look like my photo (or I should say, mine looks like McKenna's) - I like his better - the piling at left even reminds me of Kanji (not that I know a single Kanji pictogram - what is it called in Chinese, by the way?) The horizontal piece and its reflection makes the leftmost two pilings look like brushstrokes.
Martin - I think you've got a point about the peaceful & serene thing - I just looked at those 10 photos I sold to the mortgage company - peaceful & serene - maybe I should look to put some more ooomph into my images - something to think about.
Your comment reminded me of this post on my blog from May 2004 - http://therosenblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/photography-as-psychotherapy.html
Best regards,
SteveR
THANKS!!!! for the link to Michael Kenna's site! I took a longer look at his work, and I really admire how he isolates and works with simple shapes in an elegant way.
As a former power plant engineer, I especially appreciated his photos of Ratcliff Power Stations's hyperbolic cooling towers - VERY simple and elegant (well, hyperbolas are beautiful shapes, after all) - this one is my favorite - http://www.michaelkenna.net/html/rcliff03/36.html although simple, it's very dynamic thanks to the plumes that seem to jet away from the towers.
>>>maybe I should look to put some more ooomph into my images - something to think about.<<<
Steve, if your pictures are selling, don't change your style :). (unless you want to)
--Warren
i guess we should say that the photographer's name is Michael Kenna (not McKenna).
--Warren
This is truly a "food for thoughts" photo. The ingredients are unbelievably simple and "limited",yet the scope for thinking and imaginations is so boundless. I may be right in thinking that the "sacrificing" of the piling(s) on the top right corner was to give way to the underwater vegetation on the bottom left,which is quite "influencial" to the whole picture. The patches of vegetation,with their different colorations and occuping almost half of the picture,did balance and enhance the whole scene significantly. My compliments,Steve.
PAT
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