The more you look at any particular photographer's body of work, you start to notice a recurring theme with regards to the subjects in the photos. I've seen many photographers who tend to shoot people off the streets (street photographers), photographers who tend to shoot obscure stuff they just happened to find, emotive subjects, found objects etc.
It may be just me, but I see no theme with me. There is a theme with respect to my approach with post work but that's totally different than the subjects in my photos. I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. I'll try to focus on one type of subject for "x" amount of time and then I'll go on to another type of subject. Not to say that I purposely avoid getting into themes. I'd like to find myself shooting a particular style so that I can get really good at it. I just tend to shoot alot of things. Maybe someone other than me will see and think otherwise about my body of work.
All this said, one particular style or theme that I've seen from other photographers that I love are those that deal with curves and lines. I don't know how they do it but I've seen some amazing compositions where the various curves of a particular building just seems to blend and meld with the geometric straightness of the lines from a street block and those of light posts and/or various signs. Really just amazing and inspiring stuff.
This was my first attempt at trying to blend all those elements into a fairly good composition and I emphasize the word attempt! I was at the beach close to sunset and I first noticed how the setting sun cast this lovely bit of shadow from the wood fence that was lined across the edge of the beach. That was what initially made me want to take a photo of it but as I was bending down and focusing my lens, I then noticed the waves and curves of the sand due to the wind blowing surprisingly briskly that late afternoon.
After loading up all the photos onto my laptop and seeing this particular photo, I fell in love with the shadows. Shadows of and from the fence, the shadows on the peaks of these mini dunes and the shadows that were cast from these curvy mounds of sand. It was obvious to me to put this image through a black & white treatment but what wasn't so obvious was what it was I was taking a photo of. Was it the lines and curves like I had seen initially? or was it now the shadows?
-Q
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