Images From Mud Island River Park Part I

One can use the ordinary to find extra-ordinary images. I made a recent visit to Mud Island River Park and shot a lot of images. I will showcase many of them over the course of this blog. However, today, I want to show how composition and design, color, light and shade, can make interesting visual images in more ordinary frames. This will be a show of objects and scenes combined to make artistically rich photos. Sometimes they will really be representational, so strongly that the objects and their environments will overtake the image and sometimes they will work even better as an abstraction. Here are some examples:

This is an image of the river walk that makes a wonderful abstraction

Here a simple bench along the walk makes a serene image that is pleasantly composed

Composition overlapping and repeating shapes and forms make this image appealing on a lot of levels

The HDR is pushed in this image until it becomes somewhat painterly but it also emphasizes the detail. You should always click on the images to see them in the largest form.

Composition, lines, shapes, angles, and light and shade patterns are important in this visual image

It should be clear that you can find visual art where ever you look with your camera lens. As I wrote earlier in this post. I have taken a lot of images on this trip and will be showing more of them in future posts.