This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge is leading lines. Tina’s challenge is to display photos with lines “carry our eye through a photograph. They help to tell a story, to place emphasis, and to draw a connection between objects.”
Cover photo: San Pablo Bay, California
Converging lines. The lines of the shore and the clouds.
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
In this image, the buildings of Washington Street carry the viewer’s eye to the Bay Bridge. WIth a careful look (and some imagination) the image is all about lines; the vertical lines of the buildings and the bridge tower and the horizontals of the shorelines, the bridge, the hills and the lines of clouds.
Lafayette Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Two converging paths are the lines that lead to one of the few painted tombs in the cemetery.
The straight line of a street in the city of the dead (edited in mono and color).
San Pablo Bay, California
A line of storm clouds leads to the hills of Marin County.
The National Mall, Washington DC.
Photos taken during a sunrise run with my phone.
The Wall, the path and the green grass carry the eye to the Washington Monument.
Taken from The Lincoln Memorial, the reflecting pool and it’s concrete banks take the viewer to the Washington Monument. The shot is a mixture of vertical, horizontal and converging lines.
Lines as subjects
Here’s where I play a little fast and loose with the topic. Instead of lines leading the viewer to the subject, the lines ARE the subject.
Marina, Emeryville, California.
The masts of sailboats and their reflections create rows of vertical lines.
South Beach Marina, San Francisco, California.
A jumble of criss crossing lines.
Some wonderful examples Paulie. Love your reflecting pool shot and your line of clouds especially. Lines don’t always have to be leading of course and your sailboats are a great example of how to use them for emphasis. Nicely done!
Thank you TIna. The reflecting pool shot was one of those opportunities when you happen to glance at something and say, “Oh…look at that.”
wonderful selection.
Thank you so much Klara.
Excellent shots, Paulie!
Thank you Eliza.
Well done!
Thank you so much for visiting and commenting.
Nice job! The Washington Monument and sailboat shots are excellent!
Thank you. The monument shot was something completely unexpected. I looked up during my run and there was the shot.
Holy Crap – these are fantastic!! I’ll be in NOLA in April, I’ll have to make my way to a cemetery.
Thank you so much Pam. We visited Lafayette Cemetery but I heard that St. Louis Cemetery # 1 is pretty interesting. Two suggestions for you. 1- If you visit a cemetery find a good guide. You can learn so much about some of the people famous and not so famous who “reside” there. 2 – Just 5 minutes from St. Louis #1 is Willie Mae’s Scotch House. It’s a little shack of a place that got a James Beard award for fried chicken.
Wow. Great shots all, many downright stunning. Well done.
Thank you so much for the very kind words John.
Good choices Paulie…well done on the reflecting pool shot.
Thank you for visiting and for the kind words.
Wonderful shots, Paulie! My favorite lines are in the cloud images!
A great collection of leading lines, Paulie.