If you’ve ever looked out your car window as you’re between where you are and where your going, you’ve seen a place like this. Maybe it didn’t look like this but everyone knows these types of places, always between where your were and where you’re going, but never where you are. I always what kind of stories these places could tell, but I guess I’ll only ever be able to speculate.
What does serenity mean to you? For me, I would probably define it as the idea of complete bliss, or fulfillment. While this might sound like the ideal form of existence, I find the idea of being completely fulfilled kind of depressing. What is there to do in a world where you already have everything, the true feeling of fulfillment really only comes from working through hardship. Id rather have an open cold horizon than an enclosed paradise.
The rule of odds is a compositional technique that states that the use of an odd number of distinguishable figures within a frame is visually pleasing. On a walk through my neighborhood i took this photo of some poppy flowers against an empty sky. I felt the simplicity of the background contrasted well with the natural randomness of the plants in the foreground.
More and more often it seems I find myself thinking about the history of the places I visit. Not just wild mountainous landscapes, but the towns, the cities, and the oceans hold so much history, history that well never get to fully see. I find it both wonderful and terrifying to think about how old the world is, how long it took to get here, and how long after I am gone will these places be even recognizable to what I was able to see.
Living in the valley, you don’t really get to see much change in the world around you. That is, until the sun starts to set and the clouds roll overhead.
Negative space, or the empty space around and between objects, is an important factor to consider when taking photography, as it can contribute quite a bit to whether or not a photograph feels too cluttered or empty. I went on a bicycle ride out to the bay near where I live, where I took this photo on a bridge above a river. I felt the soft colors of the clouds and sky contrasted well with the blurred curving grasses below, leaving a thin line of detail in the middle of the photograph.
In storytelling, the ideas of light and darkness are often used to portray the mood of a setting, and usually divide a visually interesting area from an uninteresting one. I did my best to heavily use lighting in this photo of an old dried creek bed. The drooping trees parted to let through a small patch of light, where you might imagine some important scene taking place.
Several months ago I joined a group call with some of my friends, as well as someone they had invited who I did not know. Though we had never met before, we struck up a friendly conversation and found we had a lot in common. Many Months and chats later, I invited him to take a hike with me in person up into the mountains in my hometown. Thinking back to the beginning, I find it interesting how someone can be right next to you, in this case in virtual space over a text application, and you have no idea how much you might have in common until you talk to them. I wonder how many people I know like that now.
Also the mad man brought his guitar with him the whole way for like 5 hours, giving that day an actual soundtrack. Legendary.
This week’s Photo Blog assignment was to Take a photo of a center frame focus to create a feeling of loneliness.
I took this photo in the town i grew up in, alongside what used to be a mountain road that eventually got closed due to instability and has since become a trail.
For this week’s photo challenge, we took photos that represented new beginnings, with the theme of storytelling and circular patterns. I went on a short hike up by the reservoir where I took this photo of the natural cycle of death and its creation of new life.