Looking for Patterns
There are two kinds of photographs I love — very complex photos and very minimal photos. I also like everything in between, but I love very complex and very simple. Looking at a tangle of branches, vines, plants, or enjoying the complex moving patterns of sun on water are two examples of complex. You will notice with my photograph of snowy branches, your eyes move around and take in the entire image as a cohesive whole. The point here is the pattern, not necessarily the subject itself. There is no one element fighting for dominance. The spaces not occupied by a branch or a tree trunk are pretty uniform in size and evenly spaced throughout the entire image. On the complete opposite end of the scale, we have the image where, indeed, the main subject is immediately very obvious and it’s the unused blank areas (the negative space), that lend emphasis to the subject itself because the subject is what you immediately see. As in my image of thorns in snow, your eyes follow the subject f