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| photo by Ron Winch |
Who needs such enlightenment in an age of modern communications?
The lighthouse is just an icon to admire--a quaint beacon of a bygone era.
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I bought that print many years ago on eBay, perhaps from the photographer. I'd like to contact him to get his permission to use here, but I can't seem to find an address on the Web.
The photo reminds me of my father and the times we spent together along the Minnesota North Shore which I blogged about in a series called Revisiting Highway 61.
The photo juxtaposes many opposite compositional elements. Here are a few that I see:
Black vs. white
Vertical cliff vs. plane of water
Wet vs. dry
Deep unknown vs. known clarity
Living trees vs. inorganic rock
Chaos (rubble) vs. order (monolithic cliff)
Near vs. far.
Darkness vs. lightness
Soft vs. hard
Edge/boundary vs. continuity
[As a comment, MamaM added: Two different cloud types. High cirrus in foreground and low cumulus close to horizon. Changing weather perhaps?
Two opposite diagonals. Tree trunks slanting one direction, cloud lines another.]
Excellent composition in that pic.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if lighthouses were considered eyesores when they were first built.
Two different cloud types. High cirrus in foreground and low cumulus close to horizon. Changing weather perhaps?
ReplyDeleteTwo opposite diagonals. Tree trunks slanting one direction, cloud lines another.