Shape and Form

Black and white photography is particularly suited to accentuate shape and form. A good eye sees the shapes, curves, and lines, that draw an image together and that also make it unique. As much fun and interesting as color photography is, often the color can be distracting. To really concentrate on shape and form, black and white is the correct medium. The image here is from a black and white 35mm negative exposed over 30 years ago.

Winter's Treat

Although I'm not a big fan of most flower and other "nature" pictures, I still like composition and vibrant color. So I find such pictures useful to illustrate compositional issues such as "balance" and depth of field, not to mention the rule of three's which boiled down can be explained much like KISS (Keep it simple, Stupid). In that spirit, here are two pics I took last weekend while drinking a wonderful Fat Tire on the veranda of the rotating bar by the big waterfall in the Cascades at Opryland.