To the coast

 

Fujifilm TX-1 | Super-EBC Fujinon 45/4 | Kodak Portra 400 | Pacific Image PrimeFilm 120 Pro 

"To the coast" is another fairly atypical photo for me.  I'm really not a landscape person-- they just leave me cold most of the time-- but I have a handful of pictures from specific excursions that I still like.  This is one of them, taken on the west coast of the United States (near Portland, Oregon).

(I also don't shoot Portra very often; I have a preference for Kodak's cheaper stocks given a stop of overexposure.  Still, it is a very nice film and has a reputation for a reason!)

 

 

This one is exceedingly simple from a compositional standpoint.  You have the subjects (the two people and their dogs) generally clustered along the left-bottom third of the image, arranged along the bottom-left-to-top-right diagonal and in the foreground.  The walkers' sweaters are distinctly colored against the backdrop of dune grasses, causing them to jump out immediately.

One leg of the path continues along that same diagonal until it kinks back around the right-top third mark, naturally leading the eye up and into the distance.  In the background, a bit of the sea and a playground are visible beneath a bright and cloudy sky, where the image's directionality terminates.

The horizon itself rides the space between the top-fifth and just shy of the top-quarter of the image, following a slight curvature due to the incline of the terrain. It's "close enough" to major intervals to feel appropriate despite smearing between them.

All-in-all, a "pleasant" photo that still has some interest to me, even if it's mostly "just" grass and sky (I did say that landscapes don't do it for me, ahaha).