Image Essay # 9

Recently in class we have been talking about a childhood memory. This is a picture of a boy who is maybe playing baseball with his dad for the first time. He maybe feeling a variety of emotions. He may be excited because he is learning how to play a new sport, he may also be sacred because the ball is coming towards him. Also with this project we have been talking about using multiple elements that we have already learned and incorporate them in the picture as well. One of the very first things we talked about in class was dominance. In this picture the dominate object was the baseball bat. Also we talked about foreground, middle ground, and background. The foreground in this picture is multiple things. First off the boy with his bat, secondly the baseball, and then the boys father. In the middle ground you see either the boys mother or possibly his older sister. Since she is in the middle ground she is blurry and cannot see her as well, and the details and the textures are not as dominate. In the background we see the trees and bushes. These too are blurred, more so than the women in the middle ground. You can see that the background is trees and bushes but you cannot pick out each leaf or each branch on the trees. I think this is a very good example of all of the things we are talking about this week.