Imagining Australia

Nice capture Charles. Great BG.

I'm not connecting with this one Charles. My eye comes to rest on the center and goes to the critter and then just stops. I don't get a sense of depth from the image or a discernible pattern that I can follow. May just be me - I know I sometimes fail to appreciate subtlety/complexity in composition.

Pat

Pat,

You could imagine the hazy background as fog if that helps. It isn't, though.

Think of it as a foggy lagoon.

Hmmm.... thinking of it as fog does make it more interesting to me - a good example that aesthetic appreciation happens at more than one level of subject analysis. You've succeeded in getting me thinking as your work typically does. I suppose that if I were doing philosophy in a positivist sort of framework, I'd identify the levels of analysis in the process as sense data, pattern/color appreciation, associations prior to conceptualization, conceptualization and then associations based on the concepts (fog) created during the conceptualization. By telling me to imagine it as fog, your influencing my analysis and appreciation at the post conceptual stage and you were successful.

Pat

I'm glad that helped, Pat.

Maybe I should mention that I chose that title because looking at the photo made me think of Australia. And I'm sure one reason for that was my having recently come across this site which shows you what's on the opposite side of the world from wherever you are: http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/

For me it's off the southwest coast of Australia.

Charles: I'm late to this party but I've enjoyed the conversation between you and Pat. I'm pretty literal so my first impression was to like the subject and comp with the exception of the leaf obscuring the small bloom in the back. I don't know if you didn't see it, didn't look for it, didn't care. I tend to see this kind of thing in the viewfinder and either alter it or if that's not possible just not shoot it. A product of my limited imagination perhaps. >=))>

If anything I just thought it added some depth to the photo, Bill.