Quartered

Sometimes you see something when you are not expecting it. One aspect of photography which has alwasy interested is composition. How do you make a picture interesting as well as capturing an image that people understand. I quite like to try and make people look twice.

I was visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park with my friend Alina. We had already done two galleries in Leeds and then travelled via Wakefiled and the Hepworth so it was time for a coffee before we made as much of the park as we could. 

I found myself alone at the table for a minute and realise that the central pillar of the window alonside the half closed blinds would provide a picture that was neatly quartered if I produced a square crop. The bend in the path led the eye towards the central point and the writing on the window identified the exact spot.

Later when I processed the picture I tried both mono and colour but the mono won as the strength of the sun had drained most of the colour away and left it looking insipid.  

I still like this picture for exactly the reasons I took it and, despite the fact Alina is not in it, it reminds me of the visits we made that day. She returned to live and work in Romania shortly afterwards.