Lens-Artists Challenge #359: Tools of Photo Composition (Lines, Colors, and Patterns)

Lens-Artists Challenge #359: Tools of Photo Composition (Lines, Colors, and Patterns)

This week, John is hosting the Challenge, and his theme is 'Tools of Photo Composition: Lines, Colors, and Patterns (https://photobyjohnbo.com/2025/08/02/lens-artists-challenge-359-tools-of-photo-composition-lines-colors-and-patterns/). 'This week', writes John on his blog, Journeys with Johnbo, 'the challenge is to ... find examples of photographs that feature compositional elements such as lines, patterns, or colors'. We're on holiday at the moment, and our options are limited to roughly green (on our walk through the woods), blue (of the sea or the sky), and well, the light brown sandy colour of the beach.

Back in Lens-Artists Challenge #323 (https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/lens-artists-challenge-330-favourite-images-of-2024/), Egídio asked us to 'explore how we see silence in photography', and this led me to an introduction of the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese photographer and architect who has spent decades travelling the world and recording seascapes. 'Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security,' says Sugimoto on his website, 'as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.' Sugimoto's images often portray the division of sea and sky with a sharp horizon line.

Sugimoto used a large format camera to create his seascapes, sometimes with images up to three hours long. All I have is my smartphone. He also used to present them all in black and white with no signs of human habitation. I've actually tried a couple with a bit of sand included, a nod to the compositional rule of thirds. The last image, though this is in colour, actually looks like it was made in black and white. The wonders of light.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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