FINE ART: MY TAKE ON THE VISUAL

SUBJECTS NOT ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM

Photographs of Things: Not Always As They Seem

The are at least two major categories of photography.  The first, and most abundant, is a documentary style, where a subject is captured, more or less, as is. Street, architectural, family, & portraiture fall into this broad category.  But what happens when the photographer takes considerable license when interpreting the scene, both at capture and in the editing. This is fine art photography.

Fine art photography is about the artist and their interpretation of the scene. The camera is merely a tool to create art – it’s not about what the camera sees, but is instead about what the artist wants to make of the scene.

The images in these galleries are not always as they seem. (Note: I’ll continues to add galleries to this page. The first is “Trees”.

TREES

Portraits of Giants

 
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
 
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
 
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
 
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
 
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
 
Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

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