Please consider this as an extension of the pool post.
The interaction of the wooden walkway at the duck pond and its environment can ceaselessly surprise. Tonight the sky was cloudless and the water’s surface animated by waterfowl.
The term “ambiguously architectonic’ comes to mind.
I tend to favor the last image. Would you agree?
Confess, you did this for the title. Next you’ll progress to rakes, and not even Stravinsky knows what will follow.
I fear the last image is also last in my affections, by a far cry. No dynamic diagonals, warm yellows, or wavy lines giving the lie to plain geometry.
Steve:
I’m heading for the waterfront and, if I’m lucky, might have a Reflections On A Wake to post. And I might just take along a box of Wheaties and a rubber reptile and some leftovers from the birthday party I might just attend tonight.
Enough already if not already too late..
Jay,
The last one made me think. At first glance, the top seem to be the real wood but then it slowly dawned on me, no, it is the bottom that is woodsy
Great shot!
Birgit:
Woodsy Bottom. Talking rabbits and stuff. The inverted intelligibility is what calls to me. I’m sure this will not be the end of the duck pond as subject – unless, of course, folks arise as one in opposition.
I can’t resist — “inverted intelligibility” seems appropriate to more than the image. Must I say more
Too tired to do more than enjoy. Relevant to Tree’s observations about repetitions — for me, music depends on repetitions, much more so than visual art. And if you get them right (the repetitions, I mean), you know there is a heaven (singing Handel is the biggest case in point that I’m privy to).
June:
The final picture has a kind of symmetry twixt the top and bottom. I dare not inquire re what thou dost feel said. I fear the telling.
Heaven is forever so they say. That infers a whole lot of repetitions or an infinity of variation. Handel in the morning, Handel in the evening, Handel at suppertime….
Great phrase – “ambiguously architectonic”. I like the images but find the second to be my favourite.
Cedric:
Thanks. Would seem that you are calling in from Australia.
I am indeed and I thoroughly enjoy visiting here though this may be the first time I’ve commented :)
I’m interested in the whys of our preferences. Jay seems to like the last image for the sly intellectual joke of its inversion. I like the first two for the visual effect of the stronger color contrast and the dynamic feel of the diagonals. I probably prefer the first because of the more prominent ripples playing against the conventional (up is up) geometry. Cedric likes the second, perhaps for being less conventional, more abstract? Going to the musical appeal June alludes to: I personally find the first has a strong base of structural repetition (both posts and rails), with an overlay of smaller-scale repetition with variation (the sinusoidal lines, and the parallel bright streaks).
No doubt, one can over-analyze likes and dislikes. But thinking through this has helped me better appreciate Jay’s photographs.
Cedric,
Actually, you have commented before, and on a water reflection photograph of Birgit’s. Is the subject itself of special appeal? I have to say that I find water almost endlessly fascinating.
Folks:
I guess this must have something to do with a prepared mind in the sense that I’ve been looking at that well in the walkway for years with nary a nothing to show for it.
Steve, I don’t know if sly applies exactly as the inversion in question doesn’t feel so inverted to me. It doesn’t feel correct either, but rather correctly ambi-equivalent. I feel that there is a lot of unfinished business around depths and reflections and the concurrent acts of peering at and peering in sets up a fascination for me that is coupled with a feeling that there is something profound to be grasped if one but had the mental appendages.
Actually I like number two the best because it manifests the succulent quality that was manifesting itself, while being simple. O. K., number three for that sly thing.
Oh, and the wooden piles have a sense of crystalline transparency that I find beguiling.
Cedric:
If you are so inclined you may post as a guest on this site. I would be willing to be your host. Let me know.