Adrienne Adams is a  fine art photographer. Her work finds an elegance in nature, focusing on the repetition of texture, form, pattern, and motion.  I find this strikes me because I want to pursue the idea of beauty within nature showing similar effects.   Her photographs include exploratory close-ups, from America to China and Tibet. Within the beauty shown in her images there is also an element of mystery to her photographs. a challenge to the imagination.  She says her intent is to show the spirit of nature.  This links in with my theme of natural structure because I want to adopt this “spirit” to show the particular importance of structure.  For example through the use of rivers she is successful at capturing the essence and energy of the subject.  She heavily expands on the use of light as subtle but also very significant.  I like exploring how light can impact the colors, shadow and general contrast .  Adrienne Adams is always confident in her exposures, exposing the available light as how it shifts and dances on the surface of for example the water.  Water can be explored through reflections helping Adrienne Adams to represent the scene in terms of color, contrast and mood.

Image Analysis

I love this photograph because of just how the structure of the water itself is so different so suddenly in each half of the photograph.  The photographer helps contrast these structures through the textures of the stream.  For example the texture is presented as quite smooth and blurry, taken from the use of a slow shutter speed.  I believe I can do this and also enhance this by adding a slight motion blur to the water.  This shows the structure of water as very fast moving and constantly changing, symbolic to how water particles move about freely.  This links to my idea of natural structure because I am particularly interested in structures found in nature that appear a bit random unexpected and explainable as to how this structure affects the actual being of the object itself.  Also, I like how the use of bright light and added tones of color in this photograph particularly show off the water’s reflection making us feel how the water is a delicate sensitive structure that is fragile but fits in well with its surroundings.  Then the whole smooth and delicate emotions experienced by the water is abruptly contrasted with fast edgy and rough flowing waters.  The light here is successful because it supports the rough and extreme textures through the bright light appearing it to be quite raw and almost intrusive.  With the warm colors adding a sense of warmth and intimacy to the photograph and then suddenly the abruption of a different style of the photograph, we feel that this intrusiveness into our intimacy is quite personnel and therefore we feel more impacted by the harsher rougher water.

This photograph fascinates me because the extremely beautiful and yet subtle colors that compliment but also respectively enhance the patterns of the water too.  The tonal range is small, very sharp and therefore strikingly contrasting.  However unlike the previous photograph, it isn’t striking in an intrusive manner but in fact the opposite, a very delicate but yet strong appearance between colours.  The colours are enhanced which I believe is overpowering to the delicate movements of the water.  This is significant for structure because it shows the structure of the waves (the particles and their movements) as slightly subordinate to the strong light and colours however on the other hand strong enough to be able to impose its movements of water to compliment these reflections.    I like how the shades of orange and their respective hues increase in strength the deeper you go into the shade.  This interests me because it shows a structure that is strong, centralised and dominating.  I am interested in how the photographer has successfully linked 2 types of structures together form 2 very different sources, that in theory might clash, but in this photograph work beautifully together.  Despite its dominating presence, I like how the colours appear subtle as it lets us appreciate the beauty of how the tone changes as you travel form the left of the photograph to the right.  This colour movement is interesting as it succesfully compliments the direction of the water is travelling which to compliment the colours, the water’s texture is very smooth.