Help me choose an image(s) for a Minimalism competition. Some of the following are not necessarily minimalist, but I like them all the same.
STILL LIFE (28th Feb. 2019)
….and the final minimalist shot has always been my favourite.
A Moment in Time 
The photo of the dew or rain covered fronds at the top is my favorite. While I’m not a huge fan of black and white, of those photos, I’d choose what looks to be a chair in front of a curtain of light. Very nice.
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No, that monotone shot is my fridge as the late afternoon sun reflects off it. I have a small galley kitchen at the end of the lounge and the floor-to-ceiling windows allow a lot of light at a certain time of day. I usually pull the block-out blinds down halfway to reduce the heat from the summer sun and this allows certain items in the room to catch shafts of light or deep shadows.
I think the ‘frond’ first shot is of an Aloe of some kind and one of the first photos I took when doing close-ups.
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Omg! These are beautiful images. As you might already know, I love, love b&w and split lighting, too. Hence, my favorites are:
– the first b&w one is quite intriguing and mysterious. (I’m curious about the title. I couldn’t see one.)
– the still life is a great one, too; classic still-life image, yet mysterious; nice!
– the third b&w image is also captured using split lighting and it comes with all that contrast; again, intriguing
– I do agree, my favorite is also the last one, the bottle. It has it all–split lighting, b&w, amazing contrast, and is a minimalist image.
Fingers crossed! 🙂
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The first B & W is part of my last light collection. It is a shaft of late afternoon sun hitting my fridge. The rest of the galley kitchen is in deep shadow.
The melons in a wooden bowl is a favourite, although not really ‘minimalism’.
Then there’s the Buddha statue and the tiny fragment of light hitting the mineral water bottle.
I think the entry will be the 1st shot of the raindrops on the aloe plant and/or the last B & W. I suppose I could enter 3-4 as there’s no limit on entries. Depends on the judges I suppose.
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I like them all too, but for minimalism I’d choose the bird footprints.
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Thanks, Peggy.
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The bottle is a wonderful photo, Vicki, but for minimalism, I prefer the jelly on the sand.
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Thanks for your suggestion Tracy.
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I like them all, but somehow the “fading” bottle and Buddha appeal most. It’s intriguing to have them disappear into “nothing.”
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The last 2 images (B & W) were low-light images anyway, but you can easily make the less lit areas of the bottle disappear by increasing the black point in the Mac’s in-house photo editing software. I don’t use PS, Lightroom or other photo editing software. I’ve got it but don’t have the eyesight or energy to do much photo editing these days.
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I think what you did worked perfectly!
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The first and last seem to fit the minimalist requirement best. I like the bowl with the squashes in it, too, and the photo to the left of that one.
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