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Receding lines as compostional rules

Several days a week I pick up the granddaughter after basketball practice. I try to arrive early, especially in the winter, so she doesn’t have to stand around and wait on me to arrive. Some days my arrival time is early enough that I can work the area for photo possibilities. One scene that had taken my interest was the old white barn that bordered a housing development just down the road.

I’d ridden past many times looking at the side facing the roadway. It was long and unadorned with the exception of some slightly rusted hinges and door latches. I never stopped because it appears to be difficult to shoot without more angular foreground or background and would have been two dimensional at best.

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Finding order in the chaos is every photographer’s duty

Life is not complicated. It’s precise.

We can only be in one place at a time, travel in one direction while moving, account for only our last action, and witness only a single event in time.

Unless you’re a photographer, transforming these restrictions, compressing into a two-dimensional space the most recent set of experiences of the life around you.
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