I recently made a flying visit to Nuevo Casas Grandes. The people there were friendly and very hospitable. On the way back to the US border crossing at Santa Theresa, I took some shots from the car. They turned out not too badly condsidering. The one above is of a prehistoric type drawing on the mountainside. The one below is a stark contrast between the grandeur of the mountain above and the poverty below.
I was fascinated by the rhythms of the mountains in contrast to the surrounding desert.
“All life is a repeating pulse and ebb and surge of motion.”
L. Ron Hubbard - from his book, ART
I have been looking more and more at the role played by rhythm in photography using the information I learned from L. Ron Hubbard’s book, ART. I took this picture while visiting the standing stones at Calanais on the Isle of Lewis. Most people were shooting the stones which were very interesting but when I turned and looked south I saw this captivating view of the loch with the hills of Harris in the background. I tried to analyse what makes me like this picture so much and I realized that it is the rhythm of the curves of the hills, of the loch and the roof of the visitors’ centre in the foreground. These give the picture a movement of its own - a rhythmic one.
