Theme: Rose Mosaic

[Wendy Kates]

I put together this mosaic from the evening I spent recently at our public rose garden in Syracuse. I can't decide if the arrangement of the various roses / colors is optimal...suggestions for improvement are welcome.

[Dennis Bishop]

You have some very nice individual shots, here, and it's nice that some are in closer than others. Specifically, I don't know what I'd do with the arrangement. In general terms, though, I'd opt for having the heavier ones (in terms of both content and color) on the bottom and the lightest ones on top. Perhaps easier said than done . . .

[Nancy Bell]

Wendy this is great, and thanks for posting a theme image! Just playing around with the arrangement in my head...I would try the one on the upper left to be in the middle. It seems to have a glow that really attracts my eye. I would make that whole middle horizontal row the 3 roses that are not close-up images. That leaves the upper horizontal and bottom horizontal row all close-up images. On the top row I would put the upper right in the upper left, that way it would be facing in. Leave the gorgeous yellow in the middle of that row. I would reverse the red rose in the middle bottom row and then place it in the lower left corner, facing in. Move that luscious closed pink rose from the lower left to the middle bottom. Hmmm...maybe this is more rearranging than you want! Great idea and very lovely roses!

[Wendy Kates]

Wow, Nancy, you have excellent visualization skills...thank you! I redid the image with all of your suggestions and I think it is much improved. My only concern is the rose in the upper left corner. The left side of that image is a little out of focus, so if your eye moves from upper left to bottom right (as Dennis has emphasized in the past), the first thing you see are OOF petals. Do you think that is distracting? If so, I could put it back on the right but flip it first so it is still facing inward. Then the pink rose on the upper right would go on the upper left. Maybe I'm just obsessing...let me know what you think!

[Dennis Bishop]

I like this and probably wouldn't have thought of an alternative if you hadn't mentioned the upper left one being partly out of focus. That fact really doesn't bother me at all, but the square in the top row that most attracts my attention (I think) is the one in the upper right. It might be because of the contrast and the tight center. It'd be interesting for me, at least, to see those two switched. And in case the thing about moving the eye in a circle is valid, I'd rotate the one that's now in the upper left so those broader curves are at the top and the outside edge of the mosaic. (i'd do that even if you didn't switch the two.) In either case, they'd then be pulling the eye in from where it was and directing it to where it should go.

[Wendy Kates]

Thanks, Dennis...I'll try that. It definitely makes sense.

[Nancy Bell]

Wendy, it's like moving the furniture...first you place the couch, then the chairs, then you move the couch elsewhere...and on and on! I agree that the one in the upper left should be moved. It actually is pointing upwards and out of the image.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Wendy, thanks for posting a theme image! I'm not good at arranging furniture (or roses) but I like the repost much better. Nancy's got a great eye for detail.

[Arthur Morris]

Lots of nice individual images. My fave is the one in the center in Pane #1. Not so sure of the success of the nine-image composite...

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