Project: Lines

Lines
In this exercise, I have taken photographs on a visit to London, looking for horizontal and vertical lines, where the line is the most important and obvious part of the photograph. There were many buildings where vertical lines were easy to find, but it was harder to find 4 different subjects for the examples.


Vertical lines

Pillars on Whitehall.
Many buildings in this area of London have colonnades and I thought this one of the better examples.  Even behind the pillars, there are other vertical stone structures.








The soldiers on parade at horse Guards were awaiting inspection on a hot, sunny afternoon. Their bodies form strong vertical lines, their swords are raised and even the scabbards hang in vertical lines.

The third image is a rear view of the inspecting officer. The plumes on his helmet make bold, dramatic red verticals. I cropped this photograph so that the plumes are the prime subject of the shot. It was difficult to achieve the photograph with the crowd of people watching the ceremony.

Finally, a stand of silver birch trees on the South Bank near The Globe gave me the fourth vertical subject. The trunks are slender, white and very straight. The foliage is delicate so the trunks can be seen almost to the top.

Horizontal Lines


A bench in Kensington Park Gardens has striking horizontal support bars across the back.                                                                                   
                                                                   

A moorhen nests on a floating platform on an ornamental lake. The horizontal line of the edge of the lake works as the horizon at the top of the picture.

  

The Globe is a myriad of lines, horizontal, vertical and diagonal, but in this photograph of the interior, horizontal rows of railings mark the edges of each layer of seating.

This photograph of part of the walls of Buckingham Palace features very strong horizontal lines in the stonework.

I found this exercise very interesting, choosing various subjects, but had problems with the blog page. I had tried to put all the photographs in as inserts after doing all the writing, but had so many problems that I had to revert to one piece of text followed by one image. I spent more time producing the blog  than the rest of the exercise. Hopefully I won't make the same mistake again and will not waste so much time.