Lens Artists Challenge #277: empty Spaces

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This week Patti wants us to look for empty spaces. Empty Spaces. Literal or figurative, conveying aloneness . I found this to be a great pick from Patti’s post.

Some of you may be wondering if empty space is the same as negative space. TThe quick answer from an expert is that they are similar” Negative space is thought of as an image with a lot of empty space...While this is how negative space is most often used, this is not the only way….A negative space image occurs when the areas surrounding the subject are peripheral. They almost blend into the background. This causes you to focus even more on the subject.

Thanks for the inspiration, here are my choices for the week

Empty spaces are the gaps or voids between objects, words, or sounds. They can have different meanings and effects depending on the context and the perspective of the observer. Some people may see empty spaces as opportunities for creativity, exploration, or reflection. Others may perceive them as sources of anxiety, loneliness, or boredom.

Empty spaces can also be used to create contrast, balance, or harmony in art, design, or music. In some cases, empty spaces can be more powerful or expressive than the filled ones.

Desert with mirage, moon, desert road

Empty beach

Chairs, empty spaces …. alone.

Driving from Nevada to California there are lots of empty spaces.

Empty space in life…often we plan and forget to live, or live in the past.

Blue moment

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23 thoughts on “Lens Artists Challenge #277: empty Spaces”

  1. hello ritva,
    an interesting and wonderful selection of pictures you have chosen for the theme. i especially like your city views.
    i already knew that you can also show empty space in the city but i still had the idea of space in my head.
    thank you robert

  2. Some great empty spaces…love the stretches of sand, the city spaces and the rural wide spaces from Nevada to California

  4. Wonderful choices for this challenge Ritva, and beautiful images. Your images of the Nevada desert struck home for me. We’ve taken that drive a few times. How desolate it was. But we did manage to find the only restaurant and enjoyed a great hamburger.

  5. Super, Ritva! I actually had the idea of a lone tree in a big empty landscape, popping in my head when I read the theme from Patti and even though I have a lot of pictures of lone trees, they are not in this kind of a landscape as you have! So I am glad to see my imagined scene in your post 😀.

  6. Beautiful as always Ritva. All of your images are wonderful and meet the challenge perfectly but the v-shaped landscape with trees and the snowy train scene are my favorites

  7. Ritva, these are all beautiful photos. To my own surprise, it was the block about emptiness in life that touched more deeply. Beautifully photographed and presented.

  8. Wow, woww, wow, Ritva. Your collection is wonderful! Your images are marvelous, thoughtfully composed, and so well captured. The desert and beach images really captured my imagination. Your quote also resonated with me: “Empty space in life…often we plan and forget to live, or live in the past.” So true.

  12. It’s not just your photos, it’s the way you organise them into galleries that makes this post awesome. First one, with that beautiful shine on the sea is my favourite but you have some gems in here.

  13. So much to love. The vehicle on the dusty road feels so familiar to me/our travels and your capture of it brought a smile. The “life happens” so powerful and my favorite this week, much be the girl sitting against the colorful and and rustic walls.

  17. So many beautiful empty spaces, Ritva. The desert and the chairs…but what went straight to my heart was the last gallery with empty space in life. Maybe because I am familiar with that. Beutifully done.

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