I am a Flickr addict. The name of this photographer is Heather Evans Smith and her work can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsmithphotography/. I have an "interesting photo of the day" gadget on my homepage, so everytime I log on I am greeted with a stream of photos for the day. This one popped up today. I love that this site exposes me to "nobody's" who get really interesting shots.Compositionally, the subject is offset to the right of the frame giving our eyes a directional pull from the bottom right corner upwords towards the little girl's tutu and then into the background which looks like a mysterious forest. I think the color has mainly a complementary feel because the red boots really pop out. I think the brightness of the boots and tutu contrasted to the dark green background is what makes this photo interesting as well as the subject vs. background. Another interesting aspect of the photo is that she has both stopped and blurred motion. The boot on the bottom at the right is clearly in focus, but when we look at her other leg, we can see that she was probably running.
I think the color is expressive and symbolic. Based on the colors we know that this is a little girl and we don't normally see cowboy boots in bright red so it adds a little spice to the girl's personality.
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