There’s an invitation this week, in Amy‘s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, to consider Framing the Shot.
Walking in the Yorkshire Dales gives so many photo opportunities that I thought I’d stay right here, on my home patch, to give this a go.
Here’s a wintry shot from just outside my own village. Trees provide a traditional frame.
Over in Reeth, I made use of some less-than-attractive wire fencing to frame the distant hillside.
Harlow Carr Gardens provided its own frame above a pond.
While at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, (in West Yorkshire, this one) Henry Moore provided a frame through which to view the landscape.
But there’s no need to take framing so literally. There are other ways of a picture inviting you in.
Those fields of rape plot the path we may take over the hills.
While these two suggest the limitless landscape lying beyond the dry stone walls.
And these sheep, this cormorant, highlight the vastness beyond them, just as the tree below, utterly unframed, suggests the famous bleakness of the Top Withens moorland near Hawarth, home of the Brontë sisters
Let’s finish with typical Yorkshire weather. A view taken in the Crimple Valley one very dismal day in May.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #60– Framing the Shot
