Ugly as Art

Powerline Portrait. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder County, Colorado, 2014

Can you seek out ugly subjects and make art? Maybe this would make a good project: “Ugly Landscapes”. It can make for an interesting “seeing” exercise, this looking around at the less photogenic zones of your surroundings.

By way of comparison, the following image is what the landscape looked like in the other direction. I doubt many photographers at Sawhill Ponds ever photograph the power lines when such scenes are more immediately obvious…

Autumn at Sawhill, #7. Sawhill Ponds, Boulder County, Colorado, 2014