Third Blog

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The shadows of the photograph are distinctively shaped. They form a sleek and angular pattern which you definitely can interpret in several different ways. How the photo is held effects the object resemblance as well. When I position the photo vertically, as it is, it almost resides centered above the mounds of leaves as a bent rake, a rake composed of shadows but a rake none the less attempting to perform illusory labor. Even ignoring the landscaping equipment proportionality of the three limbs thrust out from the base, you could nearly consider them a hulking claw. Like an enormous talon of a feral creature simply enlarged by magnification and sunlight. Of course, when I turn the photograph to the horizontal position, you can still perceive both the rake and the claw with their forked tines raises upward at the sky, but I find the main shape to change unanimously. At that angle, it's a figure, a silhouette of some shambling, towering height, with gangly arms outstretched to seize and wrench. The sentiment each image echoes to me is slightly horrific, the inevitable presentiment of pointed tips digging in to grasp, hold, sweep, and tear mound from mound. Can others potential interpret the same-veined feelings I indeed have? I believe it would be dependent on how the photo is angled in display to the audience, as well as maybe barring some further post-production work. As I look on the subject now, I feel as if I should have dodged more on the upper half, the right half, of the photograph to really retrieve the manifold colors of the leaves all around to better amplify the atmosphere of the last gasps of autumn.