november - odds and ends Boom Box

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Trust me. I tried very hard to learn to spot composition on the street like you do but I just couldn't. What kind of photography is this known as? It's always simple and neat. Maybe that's Zen's photography.

'trust me'... you're not the only one staring open-mouthed (and humbled) at the screen wondering: "how the h... does Jack achieve such superb compositions!?"

What I enjoy about this particular photograph is how it opens up and tells me more as I look at it longer. By this, I mean I start to see patterns (maybe unintended). We have the large silver circular object in the lower right and then there is a smaller silver circular knob. I note a longer, small rectangle in the middle upper left and then I spot the two square vents that form their own longer rectangle and I start thinking in terms of twos. Two areas of plant life, one more pruned and wrestled into place by mankind, the other a little more untamed. I spot the red tag, I spot the black and white tag. I see two clasps or clamps. I'm not saying Jack saw the same patterns I saw when he photographed this or that my vision of this photograph even matters. 

What I am saying is that this photograph is abstract enough to free the viewers mind to try and make sense of it. I think there is value in this kind of photograph where at first glance it seems so simple, so mundane. But then it opens up and you're seeing so much more. It's a good photograph to have on the wall of an office, because you'll pass by it briefly every day and every now and then, something new will pop into your mind. 

A little zen.