When you place together several contrasting elements it really does reinforce the theme of a photograph, and makes it much stronger.
Canadian Winter
Art Photograph – Winter Snowstorm II
I now have my own version: “Mad Photographers and Brits Go Out In The Midday Snow!”
Art Photograph – Toronto Music Garden Winter
Take my art photograph of the Toronto Garden for example – no one will ever see that moment, in that precise configuration, ever again. If I went back there today, and photographed the very same scene, it would look very different.
Frozen Lake
Yet another of my favourite photographers, Ohio-born Berenice Abbott, once said “Photography helps people to see.” Abbott was a fabulous documenter, and an inventive photographer. Even if you studied this art photograph for a while, you’d still be hard-pressed to work out where the land ends and the lake begins.