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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Thirty Six: Adding or subtracting context to clarify or extend meaning > Evening chat, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, Florence, Oregon, 2006
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10-JUN-2006

Evening chat, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, Florence, Oregon, 2006

This group of people stopped to talk at the crest of a sand dune, giving me a perfectly backlighted wideangle shot. Once again, we have an image with a dual subject/context relationship. We can look at the strikingly abstract landscape itself as our subject, using the people for scale and context. Or we can view this image in human terms – humans using nature as an arena for their pleasure and relaxation. In that case, the people become the subject, and the dunes the context. By abstracting both subject and context, I leave it up to the imaginations of my viewers to process this image as they will.

Leica D-Lux 2
1/1000s f/8.0 at 6.3mm iso80 full exif

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