EXTERIOR - THE SLEEMAN BREWERY, GUELPH, ONTARIO

This, at for me, is harder than shooting either landscapes or people images.
The light and the sense of orderliness about this brewery is what first
caught my eye. And yet even though everything in the scene is there for
it's own individual specific reason, its an orderliness which is also chaotic.

And I can stand back and shoot it so that it all easily looks chaotic.
Or I can come in so close to the details that for sure isolate out
a sense of orderliness from the scene. But there is this delicate balance
of camera positioning which might present both of these at the same
time -- a seeming sense of chaos and still some sense of order.

And so there's the challenge -- to make something look orderly and
yet chaotic at the same time, or to try to preserve a sense of
chaos but just enough so that when one look at the image in
terms of its graphic qualities a sense of compositional order
might still be seen.

It is, as I said, a difficult balancing act -- this want to show
both visual order and chaos at the same time. And so this is the sort
of stuff which I find much harder to shoot well than just a landscape
or just a portrait image.

Anyway, of all the shots I took there at the brewery, this one perhaps
came closest to that order/chaos balancing act I was trying to get.

Fool that I am... couldn't just go up, take a snapshot, and be happy
with that. No, I have to turn it into some sort of silly challenge. LOL.