PhotoBlog #1

This photograph is by William Albert Allard.

I found it on National Geographic dot Com.
No specific date was given for this photo, but judging from the quality of the pic, it looks fairly recent.

I like the photograph because the emphasis placed on the elephant. The way it emerges from the grass makes you feel like it's running out at you. I also enjoy the detail every little hair got and how all the grass was uniquely bent in it's own way. This is natural lighting because it's taken out in nature. He used the rule of thirds to have the bottom be dirt sides be grass and the emphasis be placed on the middle grid; the elephant.

I don' t think this is any large social statement of a picture, but the artist is obviously trying to express the beauty of life and how spectacular the world's treasures are.


Jack O'Rourke