Tonight I thought I’d post the last of my Seattle Walking Tour images.  Sure it’s true I have hundreds more, but this is the last one I’m going to share.  Especially as I’m about to hold my own photo walk.  Now I’ve shot and posted the Washington Mutual Tower before, but that was just the top of the tower at night (check out the posting on June 29th).  This one I think is more interesting.

We had just left Post Alley and were approaching the Seattle Art Museum and we came across this view of the tower.  Now I can bore you with details on composition, talking about line, shape, negative space and color etc., (it’s all pretty boring let me tell you I’ve read loads of books on it), but this view provided something an art major might call “interesting”.

The large sweeping curve of the walkway above and the way it almost wrapped around the Mutual Tower and the pillar with the very strange light on top appearing to be in parallel to the tower add interest.  Add to the fact that the picture is pretty monochromatic (except for the tower) draws your eyes to the subject.  When I look at the picture the large curve grabs me first and takes me from the top round to the bottom of the pillar   Then I find my eyes are drawn up the pillar, basically going completely round the tower.  Nearly every time I look at the picture I do the same thing – it’s very strange.  Sometimes I get caught in a loop going round again.

We stood on this spot for some time on the tour discussing the view and why it was interesting to the viewer (and of course we took many shots).

It is kind of a strange composition but I do find the image quite compelling.  Sure it might not be your cup of tea but I like it, so it’s my posting for tonight.

Lisa is very organized.  She already has my Halloween candy bucket all ready and filled it with goodies for me.  Tonight, I caught Master Chief and Carter “rescuing” some candy from the bucket.  Obviously I made them put it back.