Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Time to get spiky...
...well, Christmas gets a bit much doesn't it. This is what the garden really looks like now that the candy floss frost has gone away.
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These Autumn/Winter colours are always my favourite: it can be difficult to make much of them but there is a particularly rich hue here, with offsetting background colour. The spiky bit is well brought out but what really makes it is the spider!
Yes, a bit much is right, although we kept it pretty low key around here this time. A fine "reality check" after your last image. I'd have been tempted to crop a bit off the left, but it is quite effective as is.
Christina - I rarely think of cropping just a bit. It just isn't a habit that I'm in. Looking at this again, I might darken that left edge....or crop it :-)
Matt - that mono shot is a cleaner picture to be sure, but the reality is very cluttered and, in part, that's what I wanted to put across. This is a free growing rose bush (say, 8 foot tall, and five foot square) that hasn't been pruned in at least five years. It is a complex mess, and really rather fine.
"but the reality is very cluttered and, in part, that's what I wanted to put across."
It works as advertised, then.
The first apartment I rented on my own during college had an abandoned rose bush. In its unkempt riot it had turn the patio stairs into a hazard worthy of lawsuits.
Not a cuddly shot that's for sure. It has the feel of decay, dullness and past glory. Probably what you wanted then?
The background to the left is quite dominant and less so in the right half. I'm needing a little more dominance in the right to fill in some of that 'empty' space a little more given the landscape presentation. If this was portrait I'd have less worries as it would give the flower somewhere to fall. The lack of vivid colour enhances the viewing experience.
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Matt - that mono shot is a cleaner picture to be sure, but the reality is very cluttered and, in part, that's what I wanted to put across. This is a free growing rose bush (say, 8 foot tall, and five foot square) that hasn't been pruned in at least five years. It is a complex mess, and really rather fine.
It works as advertised, then.
The first apartment I rented on my own during college had an abandoned rose bush. In its unkempt riot it had turn the patio stairs into a hazard worthy of lawsuits.