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The image that caught my eye was a photograph by Michael Kenna; the photograph is called Winter Road, Lewis Pass, Orange Range, New Zealand. The photograph is an image of a road with trees around it and theres snow on the trees and ground while the road is clear of snow. The mood that I get from looking at the photograph is expect the unexpected from the road in front of you. I feel this way because in the photograph the road is only visible for only while then it turns left and it is not visible.
Michael Kenna’s use of line in his photograph is pretty obvious. His main use of line is the road, but the road is not a straight light but a curvy one; also the divider on the road also serves as lines also almost as dotted lines since they break up. The framing in the photo mainly focuses on the road and trees around the road to give it more of a closed environment but since the road is in the middle of the photo, the road is the main focus. There really isn’t that much of a pattern in the photograph, but one that i would consider a pattern would be the snow on both sides of the ground but non on the asphalt road. There is a certain depth of field to the image also as you can see the beginning of the road and then the road gets blurry as it gets further from the camera. The contrast of light and dark in the photograph is how the top of the photo starts off light and as you descend to the road the image gets darker.
Roads in photographs especially like this one ones that lead into the distance are often interpreted as metaphors for the road ahead, the future, etc. Here the road leads off into space and we get a real sense of depth but as you say we can’t see where it is going as it verges sharply off to the left. It is tempting to interpret it as being about the future we can’t see.
I like the white shape of the sky too.