Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Garden Party
Comments:
It is a hard stark door with a glimpse of a secret garden within. The surrounding wall is also stark and the external vegetation doesn't look as inviting as the inner garden. The door does seem to want us to come in
An open door is always inviting. A semi-open door adds mystery. I want to push it. Very inviting.
Lovely tones!
Japan is such a tidy and orderly place :-)
I like the descent into chaos from left to right. Also how the very plain design of the door is thwarted by the plantlife.
It looks like a door that can no longer be shut, which leads one to suppose that the day-to-day entrance is elsewhere; but then it might even be an abandoned garden. The combination of angular and vegetation shadows is a pleasing mix and that is complemented by the top of the door crossing the wall beyond. I don't really mind staying out here to ponder the curved concrete surround to the top of the door - that would never be seen in UK. Meanwhile the twigs could usefully be stashed away for using to start wood fires in the winter.
I wonder if this would be a place to come back to when the lighting is more dramatic. That diagonal shadow across the door makes wonder what this would look like with more angular light.
The door and the wall interest me as much, if not more than the plant life, though the flowers in view on the inside are inviting.
Matt - Colin's recent post on Mad Dogs and Englishmen will give you an idea of the time of this shot - around 13:00.
I'd walked past this door earlier in the year and though interesting couldn't make a pleasing composition. Jump forward a couple of months and Mother Nature comes to the rescue.
Stephane: I'm working on those tones...
Thanks for the comments.
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Lovely tones!
I like the descent into chaos from left to right. Also how the very plain design of the door is thwarted by the plantlife.
I'd walked past this door earlier in the year and though interesting couldn't make a pleasing composition. Jump forward a couple of months and Mother Nature comes to the rescue.
Stephane: I'm working on those tones...
Thanks for the comments.