This is my favorite image of the 4 you just posted. In all of them I love the contrast between the crispness of the subject matter and the flowing softness of the shadows. This one though, has that extra something…it is dynamic…the leaf is ‘dancing’…tied to its shadow by that one ‘finger’ touching the ground.
Interesting observations Jen, I was thinking about the idea of “seeing” the profile only and then to recognize the subject object only by the corrresponding shadow. The idea is probably better portrayed in the “oak leaf study #2” – but I liked this one too for its crisp / soft relationships – in the end, it’s just a dried up old leaf…
This is my favorite image of the 4 you just posted. In all of them I love the contrast between the crispness of the subject matter and the flowing softness of the shadows. This one though, has that extra something…it is dynamic…the leaf is ‘dancing’…tied to its shadow by that one ‘finger’ touching the ground.
Interesting observations Jen, I was thinking about the idea of “seeing” the profile only and then to recognize the subject object only by the corrresponding shadow. The idea is probably better portrayed in the “oak leaf study #2” – but I liked this one too for its crisp / soft relationships – in the end, it’s just a dried up old leaf…