Thursday, April 23, 2009

Garden and Gun

It was quite an outing today. Got to love the 1911. The middle of that there X-Ring is hanging on by a thread.

Then it was off to Brookgreen Gardens, for some Olympic-sized springtime flower display:

I had a very interesting time discussing photo composition with #2 Son. The garden is very formal in places, and while that means each shot comes pre-composed by the landscape architect, it also means that it's pretty regular in layout.

I find that I prefer things just ever so slightly off-center, because it makes things more interesting. Sort of like how a Japanese landscape architect might design a garden. This tree was much easier to capture that way than the fountain above, because there's no inherent regularity imposed by a designer.

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