Desert Shapes

We are so used to shooting plant life in color  -the creative possibilities of them in black and white seem alien to our thinking.

Recently I reviewed some of my desert colored images of plant life and decided to convert the original images to black and white.  To be honest I shot these images intending to make them black and white photographs originally. 

 If you are interested in having your viewer see the patterns and lines that make up the design of various plant life -black and white images will accentuate the shapes.  The object of this visual exercise is to concentrate on the shapes rather than the color.

Urban Lines

In art the line is one of the basic tools used by the artist to control the viewer's eye. It can be used to indicate form as well as movement within the form.

Architecture is where the line is most commonly obvious to the eye.  It is subtle in the landscape and the buildings that occupy it.  You have to look to see triangles, squares, and octagons outside and within these structures.

In this series of architectural images I have chosen concentrate on the various shapes and to use them abstractly.  You might say I have filled my camera frame with lines moving in all directions.