Week 24
Textured #1
June 19, 2010
I recently started a commissioned series on texture. This is the first image in the series, and one that I really like. Taken of a piece of milled wood being used as a fence panel, this image to me isn't just a visual experience. You can almost feel it. Like a smell that triggers strong memories, I think we can be transported to an environment in some ways just by being stimulated visually.
Another reason I enjoy abstract texture images is that like most abstract work, it can speak to you as an individual. Sure, this is a picture of a piece of milled wood that shows grain and the remnants of a knot or branch within it. But to one person it could remind them of their childhood experiences at a family cabin. Another could see an eye poking out from behind the grain, lending personality and a story to this particular piece of wood, still another could see this as a sort of natural Rorschach, projecting what is in their mind's eye, and so on and so on.
Whatever the image does for you, I hope you enjoy it :). And feel free to let me know! I'd love to hear from you....
image taken with Canon 5D, 24-105 4L lens, 1/125 sec @ f/16, ISO 400
June 19, 2010
I recently started a commissioned series on texture. This is the first image in the series, and one that I really like. Taken of a piece of milled wood being used as a fence panel, this image to me isn't just a visual experience. You can almost feel it. Like a smell that triggers strong memories, I think we can be transported to an environment in some ways just by being stimulated visually.
Another reason I enjoy abstract texture images is that like most abstract work, it can speak to you as an individual. Sure, this is a picture of a piece of milled wood that shows grain and the remnants of a knot or branch within it. But to one person it could remind them of their childhood experiences at a family cabin. Another could see an eye poking out from behind the grain, lending personality and a story to this particular piece of wood, still another could see this as a sort of natural Rorschach, projecting what is in their mind's eye, and so on and so on.
Whatever the image does for you, I hope you enjoy it :). And feel free to let me know! I'd love to hear from you....
image taken with Canon 5D, 24-105 4L lens, 1/125 sec @ f/16, ISO 400
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