Welcome back to Patti, who presents this week’s challenge: Finding the Mysterious. Well, “Mysterious” is right up my alley. I love this theme and love to create images that conjure the mysterious. The feature image above and left is appropriately named, the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, where the artist Georgia O’Keeffe made her home. The dark, foreboding landscape and the ominous sky spell “Mystery” to me, as if ghosts will appear to us if we venture forth.
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Another image from the Southwest is this photograph of the former passenger rail station and hotel at the Painted Desert in Arizona. The site itself isn’t mysterious, but it is abandoned (now part of a national park). The dark photograph – titled “Desert Noir” – conveys mystery.
Another mysterious image I just posted a few days ago is the epitome of mystery for me. The path disappears into the woods. Where does it lead?
In the following image – “Deep Woods” – the trees seem to open a portal that leads deeper into the woods to a mysterious destination. Don’t go near these woods at night!
Old houses, found in the country, isolated, apparently abandoned, offer a sense of mystery. As do unusual doors which attract us with mystery about what we’d find within. Both images shot in southwest Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The door is in Newport, Rhode Island. The house is somewhere in the Massachusetts country.
Windows often provide a feeling of mystery and the unknown. In this image, we can see through the window, but what are we looking at? The room inside? Is that a mirror on the opposite wall? Or do we actually see all the way through another window opposite?
Have you ever wandered a typical downtown metropolis surrounded by a swirling fog? That gives one a (possibly chilling) feeling of mystery. It’s titled “Nightscape.”
An AI system can contain the accumulated knowledge and writings of all (or most) humankind. (How it does that is certainly a mystery.) An exercise I like to do is see how an AI will respond – pictorially – to various ideas. This image is an AI’s interpretation of the opening lines of T.S. Elliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – “Let us go then you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized on a table.” What is the couple thinking about/talking about? (Gosh, I wish I could produce a real photograph with such a mastery of tone and depth!)
Well, that’s my offering for this week’s challenge: Mystery. I hope you have enjoyed them. Thanks to Patti for her challenge.
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