Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Seeing 2009 (#79)

Tonight's offering: a desert landscape of sorts, from a modernist perspective, offering contrasts between the notions of permanence and the ephemeral.

Some reflection reveals a symmetry between the monolithic façade, composed of a rigid, set and impersonal mosaic, echoed by the tiled pattern of ancestral frond stumps which forms the palm's trunk and provides it flexibility.

This image carries an elegant sense of movement: the palm rises skyward, seeming to burst as an organic firework display against a vault of ethereal wisps of clouds, which in turn appear to be rising from the glass and steel horizon, as steam might from a cool surface.



Palm, #7542

(c)2009 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: November 11, 2006; Canon 20D; f/7.1 @ 1/160 sec; -2/3 EV; ISO 200; 18mm.

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