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Textures of Guatemala

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
A WALK AROUND MY BLOCK NEAR DUSK:


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Peter Dexter

Well-known member
I have done some of these myself so appreciate the aesthetic. I like the first and the blue door. You might consider some cropping on the others.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
A WALK AROUND MY BLOCK NEAR DUSK:



Peter, it’s as if you have two series, related in sensibility, but each deserving to be in a salon devoted to that set of colors, motifs and textures.


First these “sienna forms” are magnificent. Are these buildings made of cement?


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Next the “blue walls”. Each carries many conversations.

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I would commend to you to find pictures to add to each apparent “series” as this is magnificent work I can imagine showing sometime!



Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief



Don,

You are right! That is a dilemma and you raised a very interesting set of questions of the use of asymmetry, need for points of interest and sense of “balance”. Are there rules or merely fashions and preferences?

There is no doubt that the photographer seeks to direct the eyes and attention of the viewer and by that get them intrigued enough to continue to look and linger.

If that meter wasn’t there, one might have taken in more of the interesting crack in the plaster on the lower left and framed very differently. Without that meter, there is little reason to have such assymetery as there is now, without something interesting also included.

However if the space on the right was taller and wider, with overwhelming assymetry, it would be powerful.

Asher
 
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