Landscape Scale and Texture

By Harold Davis | Published October 25, 2005


Zabriskie Point 4, photo by Harold Davis.

One thing that interests me about landscape photography is the scale perceived by someone looking at the photograph. Is the scene immense, or is it a tiny detail?

When landscape is reduced to the textural, as in these images of Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, the viewer may not have a point of reference–and may not be able to tell whether the photo depicts something big or small, or even whether it is a landscape or a quilt!

Zabriskie Point 5


This entry was posted in Bemusements, Landscape, Patterns, Photography.

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