One of the benefits of today’s smartphones is that it’s easy to create an image as you’re walking along almost anywhere, like, for example, an airport. As proof, I offer you Symmetry at Sky Harbor.
I was changing terminals one morning, and looked to my left and thought “there’s a picture there…”
Out came the Lumia Icon and I snapped a few pictures.
However, things just weren’t quite right in the Lumia’s original 16×9 (16 pixels wide for every 9 pixels high).
I had symmetry, but it wasn’t right.
When I got to my next gate, I opened the image in my Picture Perfect app and began to create the symmetry I wanted. In this case, symmetry (at least to me) meant that the image needed symmetry as well. That meant a 1:1 (square) crop. So, that meant a little finger dragging to position the crop box and a simple tap to finish the image.
I left the colors as the camera captured them. The muted pastels of the building and the sky offer a stark contrast to the metallic-like reds and blues on the tails.
(I still prefer the classic “AA” image of American Airlines that dates back to the late 1960’s, but I didn’t get a vote when they changed.)
If you look closely, you’ll also see another element of symmetry – the auxiliary power units that appear just below the tail of every aircraft.
It’s all in the details, which in some case rely upon how long you look at an image to find them.
This may never sell as the cropped image is too small for much more than a coffee cup, and it may never win any awards – but I like this image, and that’s part of what it’s all about.
It may also give you some ideas the next time you see symmetry, or the potential for it, in your travels – airport or otherwise.
You can see this image in the planes gallery on Laughing Frog Images.
Thanks for visiting!
