Vanishing point
Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action road movie starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little and Dean Jagger. It has 3.5 stars here and 4 here. But that doesn’t have anything to do with this photos – just something Google found for me.
I like shooting wide-open spaces. But I also like the effects of shooting at close range in a narrow alley, which is what I did here, where the lines of the building, the door, the window, and the shadows from the power lines all converge somewhere down the alley – in a vanishing point, if you will.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
Posted on October 28, 2013, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, architecture, black and white photography, marfa, marfa texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
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It’s interesting that the center line shadow is completely horizontal (no angle at all) and it runs almost through the exact center of the photo. It gives it a look of two photos stacked one on top of the other, sort of a diptych.
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..yet it is just one shot! I think the horizontal line down the middle is what holds the rest of the lines together.
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Classic Melinda! I scrolled down through the Reader, saw this and instantly knew it was one of yours. Ken’s comment sums it up very well – the central line is the killer line to this aroudn which everything else hangs. I doubt I would ever have seen this – great Eye, Melinda
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Thanks, Andy. I didn’t even know I had a “classic” look!
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You do!
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Very nice indeed! I agree – a classic MGH shot. The shadows work so well on that texture of wall too – better than on brick I would guess.
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Yes, I think the brick would obscure the lines of the shadows a little too much.
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The light, shadows and textures are great!
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Thanks, Karen. This was taken in January, and the low sun angle helped me out a lot!
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