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I’ve been working though an amazing series of podcasts by Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork, entitled LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process. Dating back to February, 2004, this podcast series is an amazing set of short - two to five minutes each in length on average - pieces of insight from an amazing photographer and long time editor. If you are looking for a source of inspiration and motivation, to try something different or to simply listen and absorb, I strongly recommend you download all of the episodes and spend some quality time with camera and your iPod.

One episode in particular, LW0034: Thinking In Sets of Three, really caught my attention about presentation of artwork and how to increase one’s creativity by expanding upon a single image:

… good presentations of artwork are always in odd numbers. Three of something. Five of something. Not two and four. And so now when I’m out photographing, I find myself thinking in terms of three. If I find something that’s really going to make a good photograph, I immediately start thinking about the two pictures that will go with it.

I applied this technique to a rather impressive dandelion my daughter picked and brought home the other morning. I used the opportunity not only to apply my seldom-used macro lens, but to craft three slightly different views of the same subject that are complimentary to each other. And in the spirit of LensWork, they are produced in black and white - which yields a far more compelling image than their color counterparts.

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