the great divide

Sony DSC-U40
1/100 of a second - f/4.0 - ISO 100

Cobblestones dividing the path and the grass, near my house.  I liked the texture, the division between left and right, and the way the line extends until it disappears.

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against gravity

Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
1/25 of a second - f/5.6 - ISO 800

One of the legs of our dinner table, the perspective creates three converging lines holding the table against gravity.

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pool of sharpness

Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
1/125 of a second - f/1.8 - ISO 500

Ikea wooden window blinds in my home office.  The strange angle coupled with the close distance and shallow depth of field creates a pool of sharpness across the image.

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wing

Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
1/25 of a second - f/1.4 - ISO 400

This and the next photo were shot on a joint outing with Nuno.  It’s the huge suspended roof of the entrance of the Gare do Oriente train station here in Lisbon.  By not showing other elements, it looks completely abstract and the scale is impossible to judge, and it reminded me and Nuno of a giant wing when we were chimping it afterwards.

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crown

Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
1/13 of a second - f/1.4 - ISO 400

The end of the suspended roof of the previous photo, shot straight up, against the night sky.  Again, by not showing any other elements that might give it scale, the size becomes meaningless, and only the convergence of the lines become important.

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This week’s assignment changed the way I look at the world, reducing everything to linear simplicity.  It was a great exercise to improve my normal observation and to help with future compositions.