Into the pines

binga63 · Sep 10, 2016

While on the way home I found this spot...thought that it looked pretty cool...so I shot it and created this

Into the pines by Chris Crossley, on Flickr

pgriz · Sep 10, 2016

Very mysterious. The mass of darkness along the left and right edges serves to create a deep and ominous feeling, with the sky visible through the branches appearing to be a lightning bolt ending on the crouched figure in the lower center position. The woman (girl?) has a crouching, almost furtive posture, and there is something very unsettling about her look directly at us, the viewers. This could be a scene from a horror film. I've seen enough of your work to know that you won't be taking that as an insult or affront. You are a master at creating disturbing images, that lead us to question the visual metaphors we use.

tirediron · Sep 10, 2016

What Paul said! Excellent.

weepete · Sep 10, 2016

Excellent shot mate and yeah, exactly what Paul said.

pgriz · Sep 10, 2016

Ummm,, thank you guys. You might also have noted that Chris is playing with our perceptions - we initially perceive the "little girl in a dark forest" as being the victim or potential prey, and then we realize that what we may be actually looking at is a predator.

It's a dark world that Chris takes us into - things are not what they seem, and you have to pay attention to the details to see what's actually going on, and even then, the interpretation can be ambiguous. That is what I really like about Chris's work in this and other images - he reminds us through his images that the world can be a dangerous place for the blissfully unaware.