twins

This is the "environment" of the image — the underlying visual element. In both photographs this is sand — but that's not surprising since I chose to shoot in sand dunes on both occasions. The sand in the frame from Sandbanks has no particular pattern or texture, but certainly the grass stalks play that role well. The White Sands frame on the right has strong and clean wave patterns — what one expects from sand. In both cases they form the substrate for the composition.



Primary Subject

The three dead trees and the strong shadow of the one in the foreground form the dominant subject of the Sandbanks frame. They attract the eye first and provide the point of return after the eye has scanned the rest of the frame. In the White Sands frame at right the two plants are the primary subject. They are stren...