photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Nine: Composition -- putting it together > Water bearer, Kairouan, Tunisia, 2008
previous | next
09-NOV-2008

Water bearer, Kairouan, Tunisia, 2008

High vantage points often reveal leading lines that can draw the viewer’s eye into and through an image. I was shooting from an upper floor of a building overlooking cisterns built in the year 860 to provide Kairouan with water. Ironically, a 21st century woman in traditional Muslim dress carrying a plastic bottle of water proved more visually expressive than the vast cisterns. She was walking towards me along an overgrown sidewalk, following the curving line of a low curb that separated the sidewalk from the street. I created a frame, flanked by a band of greenery on the left and the curving sidewalk on the right. When the water bearer passed below me and entered that frame, I used the curving sidewalk to track her journey by placing her alongside the powerful leading line flowing from the bottom to the top of the image.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/400s f/6.3 at 88.8mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
share
Type your message and click Add Comment
It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help private comment