Bougeainvillea

There are times when something ‘grabs my gaze’. The texture of the abandoned house with the peeling paint on wood siding was the element which grabbed me…at first. As I surveyed this scene, I ‘zoomed out’ in my mind’s eye and noticed the contrast between the somewhat contemporary fence in the foreground and the weathered exterior behind it. I was in a rush, so I snapped this image and moved on. Back in my digital darkroom, I began to examine this rather busy frame more closely, and only then did I notice the bits of color on the right side: the red bougainvillea in the foreground and the tiny piece of blue sky in the top corner. There are a lot of competing textures and shapes here. I cropped the final image so that the post of the fence closest to camera was centered, thereby anchoring the composition and bringing some semblance of order to the party. That building in the background was once a house. What stories does it contain?