Foreshortening: Urban

This image explored the theme of foreshortening in an urban landscape. The buildings are of primary interest as the shrink off into the distance. You can see on all the architecture, the windows the doors, the wooden beams of the houses that they are all distorted at angles that reflect the foreshortening that this perspective on the building give us. Though the architectural details such as the roves of the third house along provide interesting detail on the angle of the view point, the trees in front of the house really stand out in terms of perspective. Though the trees appear to be evenly spaced out along the street the majority of them only appear in the last third of the page, and each gets progressively smaller and lighter. The vanishing point of this image is in the middle of the right slightly off the page and the lines of the architecture as well as the implied lines of the trees and the line of the street all act as the orthogonal lines pointing towards it. Almost everything in this image points towards the vanishing point accept the branches in the top right which serve to balance out the image.