Square

Square images are supposed to be unattractive. 


You are supposed to create your art within a 4:3 or 3:2 rectangle. In fact we should be aiming for images that conform to the Golden Mean of 1.618:1 according to Aristotle. 


Actually, I tend to agree, images in square format do have a certain tension about them...(Film photographers of a certain age will be grumbling and pointing to their 6x6 roll film cameras that served them well for decades. Square is fine: What is this new fangled rectangular world view?)


Well, here is a picture that I cropped to square format, and I feel it has improved with the transformation. A small object of desire, part of an art exhibition in the Jane Austen house last year.







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