Posts Tagged curves
Photo Essay: Snickersville Hounds (October 31, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Foxhunts, Light, Photo Essays, Snickersville Hounds on November 16, 2010
This photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Carving up the space
The curved edge of the pond in the first photo eats a nice semicircle out of the left of the scene. That alone would make for a pleasing composition, but see also how the grasses curve with the pond, and so do the bodies and especially the tails of the hounds. Everything reinforces that fundamental curve.

Gothic linear divisions
In the next photo, we have linear architectural elements made up unexpectedly of living creatures.
The accidental formal postures of the hound and the rider, aided by an almost straight horizon, create an inner rectangle and draw the eye into the open space in the back left. Nothing is moving; all is potential. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Essay: Blue Ridge Hunt (October 30, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Blue Ridge Hunt, Foxhunts, Photo Essays on November 7, 2010
This photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Arcs
This is not the conventional head pose for this formal pack shot, but I was struck by the lines of horizontal arcs. The eye travels from the rump’s inverted “U” curve to the “U” curve of the coat’s skirt and back to the inverted curve of the horse’s neck. The echo of the coat’s curve with the belly provides stability. The combination conveys balance and permanence.
The horse on the right, by contrast, has vertical arcs, particularly the tail closely echoing the rear. Unlike the shallow stable arcs in the first picture, these are deeper. We know the hind leg will straighten, so we see the deep curve as a spring that will uncoil, driving the horse forward. We also know the matching curve of the tail is impermanent, and that increases the sense of a fleeting second caught and frozen, adding to the sense of motion. Read the rest of this entry »