P52:11 | Negative Space

It’s P52 time again! This week’s theme was Negative Space.  

I love photographs that incorporate negative space, which is essentially the opposite of filling the frame. When you incorporate negative space into an image, you often leave a large area of the frame empty. That isn’t always the case, as you could fill the frame with a field of red flowers punctuated by a single white flower, and the image becomes about the white flower, using the red flowers as negative space.

While negative space is one of my favorite techniques to use in my work, to be honest, I was feeling pretty uninspired this week. I had put off the assignment until the very last day, and was determined not to miss a week, when I looked down and noticed the pattern the milk in my coffee had made on the surface. I decided that was as good as it was going to get this week, dragged a chair over by the window so I could get up high enough to get the perspective I wanted, and shot this.

I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I like it because this is my view every morning as I’m trying to drag myself up out of the depths of sleep and get motivated to start the day (have I mentioned I’m not a morning person?), and therefore it is a little slice of my life right now, in this moment. But beyond that, I’m not sure. Maybe this week I will snap out of the blahs that have had me in their grip and feel some serious inspiration!

Next on the blog circle this week is Justyna – hop on over and see her interpretation of the Negative Space theme.