@lind9650 wrote:A lot of the pictures I don't understand without an explanation of what the Minimalist represents in the picture.
Erica
I have read a few different pages on minimalism photography on the internet.
I think this is the easiest to undertand click here
This is another good page click here
And as Cosmo said, google minimalism photography IMAGES.
The way I interpreted the style is it's about one element. If your eye is drawn to the subject and doesn't wander around the photo looking at other stuff than you've got it right.
I used colour to draw the eye to the peg on the clothes line. It's red, the rest of the photo is in black and white.
I used texture to draw the eye to the frangipani stem, the background is a plain colour
I used space to highlight the power pole
I used a blurry background to nake the crepe myrtle flower stand out
I used colour and pattern to capture the eye in the shipping container pic.
As always, the theme is just a prompt. You can interpret it anyway you want. A few of the artyfarty type will try Minimalism as an art form (this is what I challenge myself to do) , most will take a picture of something that has reminded them of the prompt word (might be a string bikini on wet sand, a few peas left on the dinner plate, piano keyboard) and this is what I challenge you to do. I love the "saw this on the way to work and thought of this thread" pics. The photos that usually win are the ones that strike a cord in the viewers, and they are rarely the artyfarty photos 
So keep them coming, alot of people, lurkers included, enjoy this thread.
