©2009 Russ Widstrand

What inspired my submission for today’s Daily Photo Game is the notion of “framing”. Whether it be framing a path as is the case in Robert’s image “The Bush”, or framing a goat as is the case in my photograph, “The Goat”. I often rely on this compositional device as a means of focusing attention onto an area of the frame I wish to highlight. When I saw “The Bush” and “The Goat” images together, I felt a flash of creative mojo, and they brought a smile to my face immediately. This is usually a good sign. While the images totally diverge in subject matter, they still form a strong pairing in both form and color. This image was one of a series of the goat. He/she caught my eye as we were heading back to the car along a rural road. I noticed it at first because it was standing on top of the roof of the structure at right, and then almost immediately jumped off the roof,  trotted between these buildings and checked us out. I continued to make a few more images one of which you see here. It was a curious series of events.