Cruise Ship Abstract Girders and Dome 2
by Rick Bures
Title
Cruise Ship Abstract Girders and Dome 2
Artist
Rick Bures
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Cruise Ship Abstract Girders and Dome 2. One of a series of images, this abstract horizontal composition depicts the glass windows and white, steel girders providing support to the glass roof and walls of a spacious cruise ship solarium, the superstructure and radar dome of the ship providing counterpoint. This particular ship was Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas. The interconnecting girders form a variety of angles, triangles, and other shapes, laid out in the white of lit girders and off-white of shadowed girders against the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds. The sphere of the radar dome provides a contrasting shape, curves instead of straight lines and angles. Where seen through the tinted windows or from light shining through the tinted windows, there is a hint of green, like the sea. Abstract photography seeks to portray a subject not literally, but more viscerally, communicating through form (shapes, patterns, lines, curves), color, texture, and the play of light and shadow. Often, just a small portion of the whole subject is shown, in order for part to speak for the whole, to communicate deeper meaning or aesthetic appeal through the details seen which would be missed if the whole were visible. The Serenade of the Seas is a Radiance class ship, large with a gross tonnage of 90,000, length of 365 feet, and beam of 106 feet, but a draft of only 28 feet. The ship has a cruising speed of 25 knots. Look for my many other images exploring the abstract qualities of cruise ship architecture, as well as other abstracts.
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July 11th, 2017
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