Here's what I saw on the docks — scratches on the side of a fishing boat. By moving in as close as I could (without falling in the water), I isolated a couple of abstract images from those simple scratches.
When composing something like this, I think of it as a little landscape, so in photo #2 you see how I placed the "horizon line" down low as well as placing the wider, darker part over toward the right, which gives the smaller bits room to fly diagonally into the frame.
In photo #3 I divided the scratches into layers, into horizontal bands. The black strip up top and the dark blue strip at the bottom "frame" the lighter, airier center section.
©Carol Leigh, celebrating the ordinary
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