It's quite an interesting thing in terms of the patterns,
in terms of the compositional elements, but
I think also is way to see the construction site in a new way.
It is a content element as well.
If you've been to Athens, Greece, along with visiting the Acropolis, you
probably also visited the park where the temple of Olympian Zeus is to be found,
and you probably visited it during the day.
But if you go back at night, you might find an opportunity as I did,
to see that place that's now locked up, you can't go in there,
it's a little park, a massive big wrought iron fence around it with an interesting
pattern that sort of relates to that temple of Olympian Zeus as well.
And you might find an opportunity as, in this picture, to use that frame to
enclose another frame within your frame, and create new relationships as well.
Light and shadow are functioning a little bit differently in this scene from
a resort in Mexico, as a contrast to the night scene in Athens, Greece.
Here we have a bright, bold, hot, daylight scene, but photographed from
inside a building, seeing these two windows and the interplay between them.
The two frames within the frame, so to speak, the effect of seeing a separate
world, beyond the walls, comparing it to the world within the walls, the light and
shadow in each of them, it can raise all sorts of concepts in the viewer's mind.
One of the critical things that the frame addresses and creates,
actually, is negative space.
And negative space is simply the space that surrounds
what the nominal subject of your picture is.
In this case, if we say the subject of the photograph is the sailboat,
well there is a heck of a lot of negative space around it, and it is actually,
but that vast emptiness now, because of the way it is framed,
because of the relationship of the positive space,
the sail boat, and the negative space, the area around it,
because of that relationship, we got an entirely new content,
a content that relates to the emptiness, the vastness, the mystery of the sea.
In other instances, that negative space can become
a part of a jigsaw puzzle, so to speak.
Here we can see that element of the sky, and it's so flat and so
consistent in color that it becomes really more like an abstract puzzle piece
that's fitting together with the other abstract puzzle pieces of the buildings.
Well, why did this happen?
It happened because the frame was used to enclose a specific
area that's very narrow, that doesn't allow us to see the entirety of anything.