Journal Entry

I ran across this Photo at the PopPhoto website and instantly fell in love with it. I believe that this photo is very successful because of both the angle and use of lighting in the image. because of the way the picture is shot it makes it seem as if these little creatures are enormous almost alien like beings. Being so low to the ground creates this illusion because we are not given a frame of reference of the size or scale of these bee's. The use of lighting in creating silhouette's of the bees further enhances this alien like idea. It makes them seem almost unworldly and as if they are spawning from some dark place. Finally the use of limited color in the image is successful. By the shape we already know that they are bee's. What the color does is give us a referecne to make sure they are bees but at the same time still telling us they are dark becasue of the lack of color in the image. It more acts like an anchor into reality. If not the the image might be mistaken for some fantasy but since it is there we know it is reality.