Negative Space – a challenge

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 114

Reacting to Amy’s Photo Challenge, I initially found myself a bit lost – Negative Space??? I do have a tendency to fill the frame, but nevertheless had a look through my back catalogue for images with negative space.

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Two Views of a Ruin

A still evening and the sun is thinking of going down. Just a slight pink tinge to the far sky. It’s an ancient castle or rather the remains of a 16th century tower house built on the cliff at Greenan, near Ayr – and a scene of inter-clan fighting around 1600 AD.

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Street Art

Photography in Streets

In recent year’s I’ve just thought of street art as 3D murals on the sides of buildings but SandyL’s Friendly Friday Challenge reminded me there are many different types of art around in our streets. Mostly my mindset came from a tour of Glasgow’s building murals we did a couple of years ago. Those murals are fantastic, and I’ve got some of them here in this post.

The featured image (above) was taken in Kilmarnock and it’s one of two two foot high statutes of swimmers appearing up out of the cobbled main street exactly where the river passes underground across the town centre.

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In the Deep Wood

It’s Saturday. The country park is busy; I get the last parking space. People are not abroad sunning themselves on beaches, or going en-masse to shopping malls: cinemas and sports clubs are shut. But they can come to the parks and many have done so.

I need space and so walk the quiet peripheral trails, looking for some natural compositions. Walking through the woods, lush green above; moving along the river: torrents from recent rains.

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