This picture was taken late one afternoon on a remote beach in North West Scotland last summer. The weather was rather poor so we had the beach to ourselves and I was able to take this shot of my wife walking towards me with noone else around. I deliberately made her small and unidentifiable and the fact that she is semi silhouetted enhances this effect. This is a big landscape of sky and beach and whilst small in the shot the figure contrasts with it and therefore plays a significant role.
This picture was taken in Mallorca in October last year. Whilst we were there I spent some time looking for opportunities for photographs for this exercise. I had seen this lady whilst we were down by the quayside ourselves and she remained sitting there as we walked up onto the clifftop to allow this shot. As with the last picture I framed the shot so that she was off centre, in fact on the junction of two 'third' lines. This time her white tee shirt is light against a darker background.The two picutres below were also taken in Mallorca. The one on the left during a ridge walk in the mountains looking down to Soller and Port de Soller. The figure is again small in the frame and set to one side on a golden section. it is dark against the lighter mountainside in the background. The picture on the right was taken on a cliff top walk with the figure again offset and dark against the background of sea.
This image was taken on the Marmolada Glacier in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy. The figure is walking into the frame along the top of the ice wall and is in silhouette against the lighter background.
In all of the above cases the single figure is small against a much larger backdrop. Whilst the landscape dominates in each instance and the figure is largely anonymous it nonetheless plays a significant part in the image.
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