Lavender and Palm Trees
Photography has many levels and many purposes, from the snap shot of the kids to the archival quality print. An image that is significant to one person is irrelevant to another and an abstract photograph hanging in a gallery is just a bunch of jumbled lines to some but high art to others. There are only two people that can decide if a picture is good or not, they are the photographer and the viewer. However they will not always agree.
This landscape taken in Ojai California does a nice job of representing the caricature of this small agricultural area. In the foreground we see a field of commercial lavender, with palms and young citrus trees in the middle ground backed up by golden hills in the distance. The field of lavender has a nice graduation of detail receding into the tree line. This is a good candidate for a local calendar or post card about the regain.
If the photo-artist wished the foreground area could be selected and the color punched up even more using the levels and curves on the computer. It’s always a call between as seen and as imagined.
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