Pictures that don't fit.

From a French road in late Fall, from a cemetary in Palermo, and also from Palermo a despondent tree. They just don't fall into categories easily...except maybe the  "Look at that!" category.

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[wayne upchurch]

Yes.. Fit pictures.. that don't fit categories.
That's the "brass ring" in my personal work, as I take it to mean that the seeing is somehow only filtered through perception, not through "that's a good <your category> photograph" filters.

I'll share one of Sean's first assignments in a class Several years back, now; anyone else would have called it "make a landscape", whereas Sean called it "make a picture About a place" (Period).
To be sure, the experiments we tried were difficult to categorize, even in the loose term, "landscape", and of course the results were as much pictures about ourselves, as about our "subject". For some, they were the departures, treated with respect and curiosity, that led us to new possibilities in our work.
Then, we got to apply the kind of image handling skills exemplified in these images, here, to the authentic seeing we would evolve.

Sean, the feel for the light, the air, the humidity, the pregnant vibe of the place/time are my primary impressions in the first picture.
Speaking of "pregnant", in the third photo, I get both, a static suspension of the chair, and a dynamic quality of movement, progression, inevitability in that great horizontal undulating line of the limbs and leaf mass. There are less obvious parts of this image "design" (as Brooks Jensen likes to rename, "composition"), but I'll refrain from influencing the next viewer's discoveries, as Discovery is the quality of photography that gets us halfway to Fit pictures such as these.
I'm never disappointed whenever you post, again.