LEADING LINES- The LOW Impact way to walk your cares away!!
The latest and greatest addition to the Growing Berlin Green campaign is a joint project with the Maryland Department of the Environment who provided $248,733 (hardly a low financial impact) funding to prove that scrap automotive tires can be very useful in encouraging our health, and our environment in one fell swoop. To build this long wending path that wanders casually through Berlin's Stephen Decatur Park along Rt. 113, the builders recycled 2,944 scrap tires by using a special bonding agent which makes for a super resilient, super low impact walking surface that blends seamlessly into the landscape with virtually no environmental impact. So what's that got to do with Photography? A walking path just lies there and does nothing unless you're walking on it, so how can you make it look more interesting?
LEADING LINES-
Leading Lines are one way to enhance any photograph. It's a lot like shooting landscapes where you try to compose your image in depth as well as horizontally and vertically. If you can incorporate some element in the frame (in this case the winding pathway itself) you can literally lead your viewers into the scene with that leading line. While it's not really immediately obvious to the casual viewer, that's exactly what the designer of the path's route had in mind when he created the plan for the walkway. He wanted it to be inviting, and a winding pathway is ALWAYS infinitely more inviting than a straight one. Notice the graceful "S" curve of the walkway that leads you into the distance. Pretty cool, huh?
Let's see some of your images that utilize Leading Lines.
If you want to read more about this walkway project, follow this link Maryland Environmental Science- Berlin Walking Path
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