The theme for week 23 of the 52-week photography project is geometric shapes. Triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles are strong compositional elements in an image. When I draw a picture, I start by drawing a shape. If I'm drawing a flower, I might draw a circle for the flower and a long, narrow cylinder for the stem and ovals or heart shapes for the leaves. After I've drawn the basic shapes, I will start adding the details, to give definition to the flower.
This past week, I have spent a lot of time, both outside and inside, looking at living and at manmade objects, trying to discern what sort of shapes I was seeing. In the process of looking for the shapes, I realized that, everywhere I went, I saw geometric shapes.
Squares and rectangles
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| stained glass window at Saint Timothy Lutheran Church in Grand Island. |
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| Several rectangles in one object |
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| The bricks and the lamp are all about the rectangles |
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| This, too, is a rectangular shape |
Circles
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| This daisy is composed of two circles. |
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| There's a lot of detail to distract the eye; this rose, however, is basically just one big circle. |
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| There are circles galore in this rusty old lawnmower. |
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| A tree stump is a circle, with lots of rings that are also circles. |
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| Mmmm, circles topped with chocolate or purple frosting. I could enjoy eating circles. OK, they are cupcake circles. Yum. |
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| This circle was designed to be spun. |
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| Queen Anne's Lace. |
multiple shapes in a single image
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| This is cool because there are so many geometric shapes here. Circles, triangles, rectangles. It is a goldmine of shapes. |
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| circle, oval, rectangle... |
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| Circles and rectangles, mostly. |
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This is the straw bale house at Riverside-Salem Environmental Chapel. It features circles, rectangles, and cylinders.
Well, that's all about geometric shape. Come back next week for a recap of week number 24 in the 52-week photography project. Go look for some geometric shapes in your everyday life and feel free to describe those shapes in the comments below.
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2 comments:
I can see the rectangles of my HDTV, the rectangular cube of mu tisue box, the oval o fmy mouse, the semi circle in my front door, the circle of my singing bird clock - and more. This is a nice exercise in awareness.
Being the techie that I am, i always notice the geometrical arrangement of what I see. Even so far as to recognize the (hidden) triangles over certain people, the oval that surrounds some of their words...
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