This week's challenge takes us back to composition to capture landscape symmetry. Symmetry is super pleasing for us to see. It makes the world feel neat and uncomplicated, like you could fold it in half and everything matches up nicely. Now I typically don't think I have a hard time photographing symmetry. I love finding geometric shapes and patterns in life and capturing them. Apparently landscape gave me the hardest time.
I won't lie to you, since we have this budding relationship and all, but I'm technically a week behind in the actual challenge. This is because I've been waiting until the rest of the group posts their entries to find out what the challenge is instead of looking it up myself. It also give me a chance to get inspired or get a better grasp on the challenge before attempting it myself. This time I saw a lot of interpretation on what landscape is. For some it was very traditional, others it was abstract, and to others it was a macro version of a landscape. I guess. I wouldn't call that a landscape, but I don't want to restrict their art.
I could have taken the easy route and posted a small vignette of a landscape from a photo I took while I was at Longwood Gardens. But I am trying to challenge myself so I should actually do that.
Sometimes you are walking around and you are struck by a scene so you take a picture. Sometimes that doesn't turn out exactly as striking as you had hoped and that's the case here. I guess finding symmetry in landscapes is harder than I thought.
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