Curves

Curves in photographs help to give a sense of movement within the image and can help to lead the viewers eye around the scene in the way you intend it to be read. The most obvious example of this I could find is in my first picture of the Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg. The curving, sinuous planting of the flowers leads your eye up through the image to the gate and towers in the background.

Mirabell Gardens

    The above use of a curve is fairly obvious, but most curves have to be looked for and can be made of loosely linked sets of points which imply a curve.

Alpine Chalet

   The above image is comprised of several curves, there are two curves leading in from the bottom left hand corner which draw your eye to the chalet and then one behind the house formed by the treeline and shadow rolling down the hill. This gives the effect of nestling the chalet in a kind of bowl of curves drawing your eye around the image and back to the chalet.

Festung Hohensalzburg

     The above picture is a curve made up of straight fronted buildings, but it gives the effect of curve all the same.

Water Carrier

    The above picture is all about the curves, the curves in this picture is what curves are all about, sensuality. The statue is made of bronze but its sinuousness brings it to life.