innocent I tried to photograph with an “innocent eye” by quickly snapping the photo before I had time to instinctively adjust the frame. I took the photo without any strategic placement, just capturing what my eyes saw. I do think I succeeded, because there are elements of the photo I would’ve adjusted to hide if I were taking it for purely aesthetic reasons.
Constructed In the second photo, I constructed the scene to focus more on the actual landscape shape. I framed the scene into three distinct sections: sky (top), trees/housing (middle), and lawn (bottom). I wanted to highlight the curved line that the treetops created. I also made sure to leave out the billboard seen in photo 1.
Argument I recreated the unstructured scene (photo 1); my land argument is a small, glass flower.vAgain, I took the photo quickly, without adjusting the frame. The glass flower draws viewers’ eyes away from the trees, which was the point of my framed scene (photo 2). I think that this glass flower acts as an argument to land not only by being a physical object in the frame, but also because the only floral depiction in the photo is made of glass---this speaks to the evolution of lawns and how lifeless and commercial contemporary spaces have become (including the billboard that can be seen once again). I did not position this photo strategically, but I chose the glass flower to convey a specific idea. I believe good arguments in land/landscapes promote thought about what the chosen object/subject means to the rest of the photo.