I found this exercise to be quite time consuming (as advertised). Time also flew by quickly and I had to force myself to stop. I wanted to add more and more to the story. I eventually stopped where I did because there were too many options ahead. This is my nod to Black History Month and those on whose shoulders I now stand.
This exercise posed a few problems for me, not the least of which was the time constraint. Of course at the end of the exercise I saw quite a few things that I thought would be more appropriate than the images I am submitting now, but I decided to stick to the parameters. I found the class submission that used the bicycle for all elements, to be very creative. As an instructor who has been taught to copy / steal anything that works, I thought about doing something similar here; it turns out that I’m not that creative. I did not fill all the requirements but here goes.
A cropped photo of an orchid flower
Shades of blue
This did not turn out quite as I would have liked. I believe that my depth of field was too shallow so the houses in the background are not identifiable. My idea of having a goal in sight but facing a million obstacles, is lost.
Tracks leading home
You can use just about anything in nature to convey the idea of complexity. I’m not quite sure if this is complex or chaotic. Well nothing in nature is actually chaotic, we just haven’t figured out the rules of order, so I guess this is complex.
