Paula’s black and white Sunday this week is all about Composition. The way we consider a subject before pressing the shutter is very important.
“the art of arranging all the elements in your frame in an aesthetically pleasing way”
This is an India Ink version of a photograph of my eldest grandson just about to jump down from a granite stone gate post. I have used the ‘rules of thirds‘ to position the figure on the lower left-hand side of the image so that he is seen to be jumping into space. I like how I managed to capture him with his legs bent freezing the moment he is about to leap. I also like the spires of the foxgloves piercing the blank sky. I don’t particularly like the way the cloud on the left appears using this effect, but I have left it in because on reflection it rather looks as though a swarm of midges is heading his way and he is trying to out run them!
TRAVEL WORDS 
I loved the commentary. When I first looked at the photo, I hadn’t noticed the *midges*. I had to go back and look …. you’re right! It does look like he’s trying to escape the swarm. Too funny 🙂
I didn’t notice at first either, and then I thought I ought to edit the cloud out of the frame, but decided it actually added to the story so left it in. I’m happy that you approve 🙂
Really like the composition and effects of the processing…that ‘swarm’ is a little scary.
It would have been had it been a swarm! We’d already had an ‘incident’ before this 🙂
Yikes that is quite the effect Jude! Good eye and great composition. My childhood memory of Alfred Hitchcock’s the birds has always left me with an eye over my shoulder for black birds. 🙂
Plenty of black birds here Sue, and the very place where that tale was originally written…
Really?! I had no idea Jude. Makes your photo extra ….shivery. 🙂
Daphne du Maurier’s short story is quite horrific AND it took place on a farm in Cornwall. I take good care to smile at the crows around me… 🙂
Great balance and use of ‘white space’. Wonderful photograph!
Thank you!
Very nice. I thought perhaps swarm of bees rather than midges? Midges (or rather Scottish midges in particular) don’t appear individually – they are so small that you only ever see them as clouds. 😦
Yes that is what I was seeing – that cloud of midges! Not necessarily Scottish ones 😉
Scottish midges are special stealth ones that you don’t really see coming until you are in a cloud of them!
Haha…
Perfect effect for this photo, Jude.
Yes, the original was a little too grainy in the low light and this transformed it. Glad you like 🙂
I like this. I too thought a swarm of bees, but after being followed by swarms of midges in Iceland, I should have seen those instead. 🙂