Exercise : Real and implied triangles

Real Triangles


On a recent visit to Blackwell (10th July) I took several photographs of the  house exterior and the beautiful views in and from the garden. It was a bright, sunny day and the photographs were taken around midday.

There are several triangles in this view of Lake Windermere , taken from the terrace at Blackwell. The stone wall at the bottom of the frame edges the mown field;  the left frame and lake form the other two sides. 
In addition, my intention was to show the lake as a triangle, bounded by the far side of the lake and the slope of the mown field.
Beyond the lake, the shoreline and hill form a third triangle.

This view of the house shows an inverted triangle by perspective. As the two main walls meet at rightangles, the roofline of the left wall appears to descend from top left to the centre of the frame, causing the gable end of the right hand wall to form the second side of the triangle, which is completed by the top of the frame. 


Implied triangles

Four plants in pots, with 2 baskets, form this triangular shape still life. There are plenty of flowers within the triangle for interest, but the placing of the plants on the trug gives width and height to the study.