My daughter’s homework last night included a lesson on symmetry which inspired me to search back through a group of photographs I made wandering some secondary roads through the farmlands of the Salinas Valley a few weeks ago.
As a compositional element, symmetry is tricky. It’s at once powerful but can quickly start to feel cliché. The subject matter is also important. Symmetrical lines are inherent to agriculture and taking an angle of view that emphasizes line and, in this case, slight variations in color and texture, seemed to make a successful image. It was one of my favorites of the day.
