Well…this week’s lens-artists challenge is, indeed, a challenge. While visiting a number of lens-artists’ post I sense that this challenge is one of joyful engagement. I, on the other hand, am stumped. It must be like speaking/writing English with limited understanding of grammar … that is, if it sounds right then it must be clear, coherent, and effective communication. Yes, no, maybe?
So I went to Google and engaged a question and answer session with AI. AI tells me that shapes in photography are geometric (circles, squares, triangles) and organic. Shapes define composition, create structure and evoke emotion.
Photography design is the art of using core principles like balance, contrast, and emphasis, along with elements like, shape, and color to create visually compelling images.
While my photography is guided by an understanding of various elements of photography, the major guiding tool is … yep, the subjective experience.
Thank you Tina (Travels and Trifles) for this challenge.
P.S. AI defines subjective experience as …an individual’s personal, internal, and first-person perspective of consciousness, encompassing unique sensations, feelings, and interpretations of the world. Unlike objective events that can be observed by others…
a meditative journey 
Brenda, wonderful B&W images, the shapes are beautifully photographed
Thank you!
I’m with Ritva, beautiful black-and-white shapes. My favorite is that Echeveria plant.
Thank you!
Loved your choices this week Brenda – is that an avocado or a flower in the final image? Whatever it is it’s perfect!
Thank you Tina. Johnbo identifies it as an Echeveria plant
The details on the blossom are incredible.
Thank you!
My pleasures.
I really like this honesty. The way you describe moving between formal ideas like shape and composition and the lived, subjective experience feels very true to how most of us actually make images. Knowing the language helps, but it’s the internal response that decides when something feels right. In that sense, the “grammar” only matters if it serves what you’re seeing and feeling.
Arix, I enjoyed reading your comment. Thank you!
These are beautiful Brenda.
Thank you Leanne
So beautiful, Brenda! The chair standing in the wild is a gem.
I agree. The chair was a treasure found.