MINIMALIST LANDSCAPE

Minimalist Landscape is a new genre to me but I have done a general minimalist shot before.So here I am exploring new territory like the one shown above-The Dunes on the northern coast of Leiden in Holland in April,2012.As I understood ,it is about distilling a detailed scene into just a few elements-making it simple and yet beautiful.

It is very easy to make things complicated, but it takes complex processes and actions to make things simple.Simplicity has its own beauty!Here is a beach with a person at the shore looking towards the sea..

Below is a very special photo that I took from a moving plane.I saw the shadow of the plane I was travelling!Here,we have three elements-the blue sky,the white clouds and the image of the plane imbedded inside the clouds.But sadly,this photo is not a landscape.Why?It is the photo of the sky.

The top and the bottom photos are ordinary shots of similar lines and few colours.The less the number of elements or the colours, the better.IMHO,they are minimalist landscape.

This last photo is the urban minimalist landscape-the main subject is the lined empty floor.Which is the most beautiful of them all?You decide.I am just a photographer.

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