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| ' the house beyond ' |
While on our recent tour of Scotland, we met fellow travelers Mark and Karen from Colorado. As it turned out, Mark is a teacher of photography and fine photographer.
Lynn had called me over to a garden of daisies that Mark had been using as a foreground element in his compositions of Melrose Abbey. One challenge of photographing at the location was the intrusion of security fencing that was in place around the abbey while a structural survey is conducted. Mark had chosen to shoot the flowers low and close in the frame to block the unsightly industrial fencing and Lynn wanted me to see what he had captured. It was a lovely composition, I'd show it to you but to this point he has chosen not to publish the image so you can see my mimic of it via this link.
Conversations with Mark that followed on art, creating, composition, seeing and sharing what we were capturing were very refreshing. I have always enjoyed the interaction with other photographers. Mark's willingness to share what he was seeing through his eyes and having a fellow creative to interact with, was a welcome surprise.
While the Abbey was certainly a main focus during our stop in Melrose, Mark helped me remember that there were interesting compositions all around and to look beyond the 'snapshot'. With that in mind I made this 'POTW' by zooming in to eliminate adjacent distractions and isolate just a part of the scene allowing the trees to be used as a partial curtain that invokes curiosity as to what is beyond.
DJE
