Filling the frame

Chatting to the neighbour. Our local sheep are so used to people, they approach, rather than run away. Image: Su Leslie 2019

Sunflower. Image: Su Leslie 2019

Image: Su Leslie 2019

‘Damien Hirst Looking for Sharks.’ Sculpture by the Sea, 2018. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Bike bits No. 1. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Bike bits, No. 2. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Cheesy corn bread. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Image Su Leslie

Image: Su Leslie

Close-up; purple agapanthus buds. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

Image: Su Leslie, 2017

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” — Charles M. Schulz

A favourite camellia. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Shoe art, my friend Claire’s studio. Image: Su Leslie

Detail, ‘Invisible City’ sculpture by Anton Parsons, Lambton Quay, Wellington NZ. Image: Su Leslie

I recently saw a photo which consisted of a square of pale pink wall. On the very far right of the image, was a rectangle of black, and tiny cluster of brighter pink flowers.

I loved it! The simplicity and minimalism of the shot is so totally outside my photographic aesthetic or vocabulary.

Seeing Patti’s choice for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge —  Filling the Frame made me realise how much I do exactly that. I try to minimise distraction and guide viewers to see the my subject more clearly by presenting it front and (generally off-) centre.

Yet the ‘pink-wall’ image achieved exactly the same goal, focusing my attention not by foregrounding the flowers, but by filling the frame with “white space.”

Expect some attempts at this from me soon.