safe haven for tiny formats

[rrunnertexas]

DSCF1984 by rrunnertexas, on Flickr

[Ken Lee]

Overturned Teacup, February 2020

[rrunnertexas]

Fujifilm X100T by rrunnertexas, on Flickr

Near downtown Fort Worth, Texas - Fuji X100T - International pickup truck

[jp]

Overturned Teacup, February 2020

I loved your teacup images from a couple years ago! Glad to see you back at this subject.

[Tin Can]

Pitcher2 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[Tin Can]

1-29-DSC_1892 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[Ken Lee]

I loved your teacup images from a couple years ago! Glad to see you back at this subject.

Thank you so much Jason.

Now you're to blame if I get lost in them again

Teacup, February 2020

[Ken Lee]

Teacups, February 2020

[jp]

Teacups, February 2020

I think I'm starting to figure out what I like about them. Composition seems to be based more on simple design harmony rather than formulas of lines and shapes. There is not a straight line to be found, so it's transcending normal photographic line and shape based composition. Composition is also based on tonal areas, like Notan style popular with the pictorialists and other end-of-19th-century artists which I am fond of as taught by Arthur Wesley Dow.

[Ken Lee]

I think I'm starting to figure out what I like about them. Composition seems to be based more on simple design harmony rather than formulas of lines and shapes. There is not a straight line to be found, so it's transcending normal photographic line and shape based composition. Composition is also based on tonal areas, like Notan style popular with the pictorialists and other end-of-19th-century artists which I am fond of as taught by Arthur Wesley Dow.

I didn't have anything in mind when making these photos, but after the fact - if something is pleasing - we can usually discover some kind of harmonic principle at work. It's a bit of circular reasoning: if we feel that the brain prefers certain harmonies, then if we like the image there must be some harmony afoot.

Here's a stab at it: a Fibonnaci growth function, from right to left. It covers some of the main elements (horizontally) but there are probably too many others to reckon. If this game were simple, we would have lost interest a long time ago.