Anne is in the lead this week, and she has got a fabulous challenge in store for us – Filling the frame. Please visit her beautiful site for more inspiration.

Filling the frame offers a sense of completeness, clarity, inclusion, and comfort. We essentially “dive in” and experience the true essence of what the subject has to offer.

– Lucas Martin

So what does it mean – to fill the frame? Let’s see…

Prayer flags in Bhutan fill the frame in many respects – with cloth, letters and words.

Porto offers a staircase of sorts – it really fills up both us and the library/bookstore…

Filling the frame with a filled frame is hopefully allowed too? Beautiful stones of Georgia.

This random gallery of manmade and naturals ends with the rusty remains of a ship on a shore somewhere in Iceland. Filled with holes, but it still fills my frame. (Click to see the whole pictures)

Macro’s make us come really close, and leaves almost no empty space anywhere – maybe there is some truth in this quote from Robert Capa:

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.

Fernsfernsferns – they are irresistible! Even the back side of them…

And, this is key to why I love it when an abundance of small pieces fill the frame –

– like these Icelandic icicles. To me, maybe it is also a matter of colours. Few colours, all hues in harmony, make the frames complete – or what do you think? I left a monochrome in the header… for us to keep pondering – is this a filled frame – or not?

Finally, a fiery frame from our walks this weekend – Autumn filled it from ground to sky. Lucas Martin was right.

Thank you, Donna, for a marvelous asymmetry challenge last week. We’ve learned a lot and had a lot of fun, haven’t we! Next week James of Jazzibee will be our guest host, be sure to look for his site for inspiration! Remember to link to the original post and tag with Lens-Artists.

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