PlacesCape Disappointment, Washington
The Gap in the Trees
Coastal shade, open water, and one figure crossing the quiet middle at Cape Disappointment, WA.
Openings do a lot of work in photographs.
Two dark walls of trees, a bright stretch of sand, a person crossing the middle. The frame becomes a threshold before it becomes a landscape. You feel the movement from shade toward water.
Sometimes the subject is not the person or the place, but the passage between them.
Thresholds are useful in story-driven photography because they give movement a shape. In engagement and couples photography, walking through a place often creates more natural images than standing still for too long.
