Dying among the Living

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beautiful! great effect!

Lesa has presented us with a very fine example of non-objective art. She is following the footsteps of Vacille Kandinsky ( the founder of the non-objectivism) and she is reminder of Sam Francis ( the renowned American painter [ born 1923 ]. Lesa's shot is a symphony at its climax with superb unity and sheer high notes thrown at the viewer who is the receiving end of such centrifuge of split complementary color scheme of hues and mid-value colors tossed out of center to make us feel blissful and to forget our visual habit of seeing shapes and mundane conventional compositions. The blurred colors are moving lubricatedly not jerkily, so the evocation is ease and softness, but not snail-paced. We can sense speed with which the lubricated movement is centrifuged out gaining speed as they reach the left edge of the frame. If the hues can't assist lifting our mood, the perception of movement here does. This is how Lesa has associated her image with our mood and feeling, smartly enough not to move us the way conventional shots do,but to strip off her shot to get us rid of our visual prejudice and to evolve our perception by looking at something that is in essence the backbone of thousands of conventional compositions: Color and Lines.

 

Congratulation to Lesa for being so profoundly philosophical toward photography art.

Thanks Craig and Arash for your comments. Arash...your comment and insightfullness is amazing. Thanks so much for putting it in the written form. Regards....LJ

Very nice and original work, Lesa! Best regards, Ruud.

Lesa,

I don't find a deeper message but I like the visual presentation of the swirling vortex of pink and gray. All colors channel into the event horizon. Okay, maybe I do find a deeper meaning.

fergi

I feel like I am watching the world of a flowers sping on a vortex. I love how you centered it. Just gorgeous with those browns and whites and pinks.

nice muted colours, great dynamics ! bravo, Lesa, cheers Jana

Lesa, unlike Andrew I did find a deeper message immediately, without pause or introspection. You are too young to do this, but if you could put yourself in the mind of someone who just turned 76 as I did last month, "Dying among the Living" attached to a swirling graphic leading to what can only be described as a narrow passageway into the land of the deceased strikes a chord. It's not a bad thing, and there is no fear, just a more elevated realization that this life isn't going on forever and you'd be wise to make the most of it while you can. In that sense this is a much more profound combination of words and graphics than you might have intended, but don't think of this as a downer. It isn't - just a great piece of work steeped in meaning that goes way beyond color, design, DOF, focus, or any of those other things we give so much space to here on photonet.

Thanks Ruud, Andrew, Micki, Jana, and William for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment. William---You GET it!!! This is actually a shot of camellia petals that had fallen from the bush. The ground was littered with petals in various stages of fading and "dying"---symbolic of all of us, no matter what age. Thanks so much to everyone again....regards....LJ