"There's
only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence."
-Queen Mary Of Great Britain
Have you ever stopped by a beautiful fence just to have a glance at what is beyond it? Or ever stood by a fence, just like that, silently resting your hands on it ? If yes, then, more probably than not, you had felt something special there.
Fences are one of my most favorite subjects for photography.
Simply put, fences or railings - as we call it, are kind of barricades made out of wooden or iron bars or metal wires. But these inanimate things can evoke a thousand different emotions in our hearts, depending upon what set up they are situated in.
Sometimes they look romantic, sometimes they feel nostalgic, sometimes, even enigmatic!
Often, for some strange and unknown reason, they take us to our past, to our childhood. At times, they look so incredibly surreal, they remind us of some long forgotten fairy-tale...
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Really, fences have philosophical, in fact, almost spiritual characteristics to them.
Especially, in the middle of natural landscapes,
fences enhance the beauty of every element of nature it gets associated with, be it flowers, plants, farm, crops, birds, animals or just plain walkways!
Fences also give you a wise message of keeping your
trail on. The way they are curved, when we walk along these fences we lead our
path exactly the same way, following it on each twist and turn!
The beauty about fences is that even though they define “Boundary” for a particular place, they make that place all the more inviting anyway!
Those beautiful, soft, see-through wooden fences actually make you ponder. They convey one important omen to the human-kind, that - Boundaries may be necessary for the ease of understanding one’s “field” or for the logical division of “areas”,but they should not be as solid as “walls”, there should always be some transparency, some “breathing space”, some room to peep into “somebody else”…
The beauty about fences is that even though they define “Boundary” for a particular place, they make that place all the more inviting anyway!
Those beautiful, soft, see-through wooden fences actually make you ponder. They convey one important omen to the human-kind, that - Boundaries may be necessary for the ease of understanding one’s “field” or for the logical division of “areas”,but they should not be as solid as “walls”, there should always be some transparency, some “breathing space”, some room to peep into “somebody else”…
When I was next to these gorgeous fences photographing
them, I felt like I was part of some story, some very intriguing story…and
every photograph I captured seemed like a memorable frame of some scene from that
story as it unfolded slowly, gracefully…
View the complete gallery of my fence images here !
View the complete gallery of my fence images here !
Images & Article Copyright © 2011-2012 Gyaneshwari Dave
Good topic. Very different and intricate meaning of fence portrayed in a much philosophical way with a touch of art. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Abbas Hitawala...glad to see the write-up reaching out to the reader's heart.
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