Pattern, Texture, Many September 28, 2008
This is a random photo taken of a tree that had these unique leaves and i saw design on it. This is a design example of Pattern, Texture, and Many. This has all three elements here. Pattern, in the design of the leaves and colors and lines on the leaves. Texture because you can almost feel the leaves in this photo. Then Many because there is more than one leaf here.
Rhythm September 28, 2008
This was taken while walking through the woods near Prairie Island Park in Winona. This is a tree stomp that i stood over to get the rings and the close surroundings. This is an example of Rhythm in photography. There is a Rhythm running through the rings on the stomp, your eyes are taken to the center of the photo and then the rings bring our eyes out to see the rest of the photo.
Figure and Ground September 28, 2008
This was taken on a side of a building in downtown Winona. This design concept is Figure and Ground. We have the leaves coming onto the building, but then there is all this design going on with the red bricks. The shape of the leaves catches out eye, drawing us across the photo. Windows also make a good choice for this, so there was a window, and i chose to include it in instead of cropping it out. It adds more to the photo.
Dynamic Tension September 28, 2008
This was taken on top of Garvin Heights in Winona. There were so many people up there and i just sat back and started people watching. Then this dog kept starring at me. This photo came after many different shots taken. I saw in this photo the design element Dynamic Tension. There is all this tension on what the dog is looking at and wondering what the owner must be doing. The owner’s legs are going up and down and the dog’s stare makes a curve shape to the right.
Gestalt Perception September 28, 2008
This is the side of a building in Woodlawn Cemetery. This is Gestalt Perception for the reasons what Gestalt is. Gestalt has the principles of emergence, multistability, and invariance. Meaning that we can recognize objects in this frame no matter which way we turn this photo. Also another principle says that we should seek completeness in a photo, this photo makes you wonder more.



