Color in Photographic Perspectives

Color was something I did not initially expect to find on a fallen, dead tree. As I began to photograph the tree I was struck at how rich and vibrant the colors were. I liked the way the colors in the sap and the beetle brought out the underlying tones in the shaded tree, or the colors in the bark. The blue beetle highlighted the purple and orange tones  in the bark, and the sap ran down the tree from red, to orange, and golden yellow. I tried to explore this in my photos. The beauty as well as the unexpectedness in the colors drew me to this element of photography.

Texture

Although choosing to explore texture as my photographic element may have been an obvious choice when the subject is a dead tree, I was very intrigued with the diversity of textures within one subject. Some sections of the bark of the tree were smooth and worn down, while other sections had peeling layers of rough and faded bark. In another section where the tree had fallen over, sharp rugged points with a very grainy texture marked the place where the tree had once stood. The variety, beauty and complexities of the textures in the image led me to choosing to explore them in the photographs above.

Photographic Perspectives