(Yes, it snowed here yesterday.)

The curvatures are compelling! Reading your recent post makes me hesitate to flatten the horizon on my photos using the filter-distort-lens-correction option in AP.

It is fun the way that the trees lean towards potential hikers on Caldwell’s path, and the way the sides fall off the bar in the Kubel picture, giving us a ‘Star Wars’ like feeling.

What wonderful examples of the skews images can take, whether painted or photographed. I was, of course, instantly fascinated with the curving of space in your examples.

But the question of centered verticals is also interesting, because, I think, the notion of the “sweet spot” at an 2/3 place on the image has been turned into a cliche. This is what happened to the centering that we see all through the Renaissance and later — it becomes a cliche, a bit trite and oft used as a “rule” and so some maverick decides that images with centered vertical lines are foolish. And we find another sweet spot.

What fascinates me about the centered images is the dropping off of the sides (in the Kubel photo) as well as the converging of the trees in the Caldwell photo. So while we may have moved back toward a Rousseau aesthetic, it has been changed by people like Hockney and Downes and photography in general.