The Open door to dreams is a surrealistic photo composition that I made some years ago for a photography concept contest.
The idea was to illustrate this text: “I hear it in the deep heart’s core” from “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” by W.B. Yeats. The poem is about a place that the poet always dreamed of going to and never lost hope of doing it.
As with all these contests I participated in at that time, the photos had to be fresh and original. I happened to be in Merida, Mexico, so all I could do was to use the available elements in the existing environment. It was not too difficult because there are many photo opportunities in this area 🙂
The man is an elder Mexican who was simply sitting on the side of the road. That was in Puerto Progresso, Mexico, a vacation place for tourists and locals of the City of Merida.
Here are the original images:
The river and flying pelican are part of the Biosphere Nature preserve in Yucatan, Mexico:
BTW, I took the door inside of a beautiful convent in Merida:
Open Door to Dreams art print
The Open door to dreams image was a top favorite finalist in that prestigious art photography contest. Now, I think it can nicely illustrate the idea of “a portal open to the great adventure that lies ahead“. It is also available as art print for wall and home decor in my Fine Art America Gallery. Here is how it can look like framed on the wall:
Just click on it for details!
… And, as a big surprise, I just T-Shirt – Black – 2XLarge of my image entitled “I hear it in the deep heart’s core” Yay! 🙂 Thank you buyer from Rayne, LA.! Here it is:
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Tuesday Photo Challenge – a portal that might be representative of the great adventure that lies ahead |
The doors in St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada are very colorful. The reason for this is quite obvious to me.
Located in Atlantic, Canada, Newfoundland has many months of cold, weather and gray days. Nevertheless locals are trying to brighten their environment with bright, warm colors to keep their spirit high. Red is a favorite color, being the warmest in the spectrum, and not only here, but all over Atlantic Canada.
Newfoundlanders are generally very nice and friendly people, and this trait is shown on the way they live too. They paint their walls, doors and windows and they ornate as much as they can their living spaces.
Colorful Doors in St. Johns Newfoundland
St. Johns Newfoundland is one of the most colorful places I have ever seen. Here are some interesting doors I’ve seen on the Battery Hill, the oldest historic part of the city. Some are new or restored, some need some work:
Doors in St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada poster
Here below you can see two collage-posters of some colorful doors and windows in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I made uploaded them to my Fine Art America gallery, and they are available as art prints:
Click on the image for options on these posters.
What are Leading lines in photography, anyway? Well, if in the antiquity all the roads were leading to Rome, in photography, they lead to the main subject of the picture 🙂
The most common use of leading lines in photography are the roads and pathways
This one for instance, was a road glowing in the last rays of sun in Utah.
In this case below, the lines of the bridge point to my husband approaching the exit. * I told him to walk to the end so I can take the shot – it was in Thunder-bay, Ontario 🙂
I actually also made a digitally painted version of it – I just love to play with my photos and give them a painterly look 🙂
When we look at a photo, our eyes instinctively follow the existing lines. That’s why a good composition is supposed to attract the viewer into the scene. I hope your eyes here are attracted not only to the Alhambra tower, but also to the city of Granada below.
The street lines here lead to another historic building in Harlowton Montana. * I made the picture as a digital painting.
Leading lines in photography telling a story
But like frames, the lines in a composition also help to create an interaction between the elements. Often they can tell a story too, like in this picture of frozen hills in Palouse, Washington:
And lines (read roads) are meant to be crossed right? Aren’t these wild burros in Nevada so cute?
Oh, these tourist intruding into to the wildlife habitat are terrible aren’t they! (Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada)
Leading lines in photography created by other elements
Any lines that lead your eye to something of interest, are good leading lines. One photo I always liked is this one with the telescope pointing to the city of Monte Carlo – Monaco and the bay. It is part of my Monaco one day visit post also made with the Lens Artists in mind.
On the other hand, it was not too difficult to notice this clock tower in Uberlingen, Germany with so many architectural lines pointing to it:
Natural elements can create leading lines too
Here is a scene on the beach of Ocean Shores in Washington – I love drift wood 🙂
The flowing water of the Kakabeca falls leads your eye right to the river below;
… And finally, rocks, palm tree leaves and waves will conduct your view to the antique Mayan temple in Tulum, Mexico:
I hope you enjoyed my examples of the leading lines in photography along my travels 🙂
Lens-Artists Challenge #80 – Leading Lines |