Part of a Barn, Vermont

While I undoubtedly have thousands of photos of Vermont barns, with this series I was playing with capturing only part of the structure to produce an image. I recently read somewhere (in one of my photography books) how barns do not make sense outside their reality, meaning they should be photographed in their entirety to make sense to the viewer. I could not disagree more; it is absolutely possible to capture the beauty, texture, and presense of a barn without having the photograph the structure in its entirety. In fact, I believe it is sometimes a bolder statement to photograph only part of a scene, object or person in order to tell a story, convey an emotion or capture a moment.

(See also "Tractor in Dorset Vermont," an earlier posting, for additional thoughts on this issue).