I have subscribed to National Geographic on and off for more than ten years. Originally because I was interested in anthropology, natural history, the world in general, and then because I was studying art and used the images for inspiration for abstract paintings. More recently I have renewed my subscription for access to the stunning photos in order to support my course learning.
In this month's edition, I was intrigued by an image sent in by a reader, Wieslawa Dabrowska, a Polish art restorer, published in the "Visions Your Shot". Dabrowska had turned to small objects in the home to explore close-up photography and sent in an image of the inside of a red pepper, where the abstraction is such that it actually looks like as woman's neck adorned with a ruff collar and red dress.
Every image in NG is stunning; it would be possible to pick them out on that merit alone, however another image I found intriguing in the August edition is the one below showing the ethnic diversity of Stamford Hill in Hackney, East London against some iconic images of London (the phone box and bus). This was published on page 76, and shot by photographer Alex Webb. The photo featured as part of an article describing the diversity of East London as it comes under the spotlight during the Olympics. The composition of this image is also interesting: the positioning of the three people in the shot forms a triangle with the apex pointing towards the bottom of the frame, and there are many converging diagonal lines from the bottom to the back of the photo.
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| Stamford Hill (c) Alex Webb (taken with handheld by me) |
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