Time in the Garden

A fine blend of native art and plants.

Being familiar with this particular piece of First Nations Art and it's location, I suspect it has been photographed thousands of times. But, I doubt the countless tourists who jumped off the bus and back on again to take the image had the idea of shooting it through the fore ground foliage, thus turning a cliche shot into an original. Leaves me to wonder if the annon. raters who gave it a three for originality even bothered to look long enough to see that some fore thought and vision had taken place before pressing the shutter.

 

Nicely done Hanna.

Well, there you go. It doesn't diminish my pleasure in making the image or appreciating the carving. I'm pleased you like it and took the time to get the point.

Creative approach. You have managed a nice combination of employing the OOF foreground vegetation with narrow DOF to subdue the background, thus leaving the focus on the totem without isolating it from the surroundings. A fine balancing act you have succeeded in achieving with this.

Gordon, thankyou for your considered comment. The carving is a fine piece of art and I'm pleased you feel I did it justice.

To my eye you've at least done justice here. I think you went well beyond just a well made visual record of the carving, and on to bring it to life, blend it with it's surrounding so there's no mistaking it belongs here... it lives here.