Cropped

Peter included a very dramatic photo of a peacock in his ABC Wednesday post. What made it dramatic and a prize winner as well? Was it the lighting, which was pretty awesome? Was it the color?--hard to go wrong with colors with a peacock. Was it the composition? I think that all of those elements and probably others which I haven't thought of are part of it

It got me to thinking about how differently we see things, and how differently things look if we crop them differently.
Have you observed the face of a peacock? We are so busy being amazed at the plumage, that we don't notice the character of his face. What is he thinking about?

The brilliant blue of the body, if you are not looking at

that tail, is an visual experience in itself.

Each eye of the tail has perfect symmetry. An image of its own.

Shy eye! Hiding behind nearby greenery.

Catch a sequence of eyes--or another combination.


A double eye!

Here is the original whole, photographed in April of last year on the grounds of Maryhill Museum in south central Washington.