Every day that I see the counter on my posts I realize how fast time is ticking. I think I will stop numbering the posts. Let me think about it...
In the mean time, let me wander a bit about composition. Specially, landscape composition. There is this idealistic style of photographing landscapes: the guy that walks around with his tripod and arranges his camera and waits for hours or even days, in order to get the correct light. Poetic, but when you have a family going around with you, watching for their needs comes always above your photographic needs :) No seven year old boy will hang around with you, waiting for the correct light.
Today's tip is something I have done so many times intuitively, and I found it quite interesting to find the tip literally into a book (Within the Frame from David duChemin): when photographing a landscape, be patient and add some element into your frame, to sustain the story of your image.
Somehow (as it happens very often to me) I haven't give a lot of attention to it but it makes perfect sense. I have this tendency of no appreciating what I do until I find it written in a book. Naughty! We should listen to ourselves always and first of all!
On the top picture I was so lucky of having the horses walking at Natal beach while I was there... the only thing I did was to wait patiently for them to come to the correct angle, with Natal city behind, to take the shot. This picture denotes the contrast of such a pure landscape against the city background, as if the city was just a poster, not important. The horses do not care for the city. They are.
The bottom picture dates from April 2004. Long ago.. it is FILM! Black and white F-I-L-M. Yes Sir! Scanned at home and full of scratches, but the composition says so much to me, that I have this picture printed and framed. Its the perfect symbol of a dutch spring. The woman is there and the time has stopped. If I get back to this place now, I am sure I will find that same woman. May be a bit frozen, but she will be there.
Tomorrow we are going to spend 1 night and half day at Den Haag. A double post when I get back, hopefully with fresh pictures!!!
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