Atlanta, GA

Untitled (Atlanta, GA #5532) copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale –

One of the fascinating subjects for me are Industrial objects, where form will follow function and how the resulting form will usually have a sophisticated elegance to it. Engineering design is concerned about utility, efficiency, ergonomics, functionality, usability, maintenance, user-interfaces and work flows, thus one of the traits of good engineering design are orderly lines and simplistic layouts. The resulting structures seem to to have an aesthetic quality to them, as might a sculpture. This is an aspect of my subjects that I am exploring.

Cheers!

Doug

Update: It is always interesting for me to post a photograph and be able to look at the image from a little more distance. In this case of the photo below, I realized that 1.) I did not get the color contrast as I intended, 2.) I was not consistent with the centering of my principal subject and 3.) the word JETS in the background edge was not helping with the intended ambiguity. Thus a curve tweak with a cropping do-over, but I decided to leave the first version of this photograph, below, to help illustrate a point about project and image editing. It’s a constant process :- D