Summary: The Quiet Beauty Of A Hunter's Lair
The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair
For my visual description, I chose to write about a photograph captured by Jason Vaughn, The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair. The picture is part of a series called Hide. The picture was taken in Columbus, Wisconsin in the year 2013. Photographs from Hide were placed in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Wisconsin Triennial and the State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The photo, which is twenty-four inches high by thirty inches wide, shows the beauty of a deer stand in a still setting deep in the woods. The hazy sky and the distant trees in the background without much clarity put emphasis on the deer stand, making the stand the focal point of the photo. The lighting
appears to be misty and dim in the background, the forefront has a much brighter appearance. Overall, the lighting appears to be soft and quiet. It perfectly displays the peacefulness of this hunter’s deep forest retreat. Foliage lays all around the stand and all along the bottom of the photo. The foliage consists of many different kinds of shrubs, bushes, and plants with a variety of vibrant colors. Dark and light greens with spots of yellow, red, and dark red leaves make up the foliage. The foliage surrounding the image makes a nice border and the vivid detail adds to the depth in which the stand is located. The thin branches and green leaves of a poplar tree tower over the upper left side border and a spruce tree fills up the right side border. Another large poplar tree can be seen behind the spruce tree on the right border. This tree has a mix of green and yellow leaves and extends up over the right edge of the deer stand in the upper right corner of the photo. The deer stand itself is made up of old, dark, grainy plywood. The stand sits up on a platform constructed of wood. The front of the stand has a long rectangular window extending half way down the side. A green board lays on the inside of the window with two oval cut-outs on the lower portion of the window. Another oval cut-out is made to the left of the window. Along the left side of the stand are three more oval cuts-outs which are all parallel to each other. One of these oval cut-outs were made in the forest green door of the stand. All the oval cut-outs have clear glass or plastic placed over the opening. A grey satellite is bolted to the upper left hand side of the stand. The roof of the structure almost lays completely flat but is slightly sloped. The bottom four edges of the stand have black braces connecting the wooden legs of the stand to the wooden platform. The four wooden legs of the stand are reinforced with two by four cross braces. An old wooden ladder stand rests on the left side of the stand and extends up to the forest green door of the deer stand. Light green moss covers the steps of the ladder. The bottom of the ladder and the legs of the stand disappear into the overgrown foliage. The title, The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair, tells us what Vaughn was representing. This picture captures the calmness of the forest and the peaceful beauty of the hunter’s lair.
For my visual description, I chose to write about a photograph captured by Jason Vaughn, The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair. The picture is part of a series called Hide. The picture was taken in Columbus, Wisconsin in the year 2013. Photographs from Hide were placed in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Wisconsin Triennial and the State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The photo, which is twenty-four inches high by thirty inches wide, shows the beauty of a deer stand in a still setting deep in the woods. The hazy sky and the distant trees in the background without much clarity put emphasis on the deer stand, making the stand the focal point of the photo. The lighting
appears to be misty and dim in the background, the forefront has a much brighter appearance. Overall, the lighting appears to be soft and quiet. It perfectly displays the peacefulness of this hunter’s deep forest retreat. Foliage lays all around the stand and all along the bottom of the photo. The foliage consists of many different kinds of shrubs, bushes, and plants with a variety of vibrant colors. Dark and light greens with spots of yellow, red, and dark red leaves make up the foliage. The foliage surrounding the image makes a nice border and the vivid detail adds to the depth in which the stand is located. The thin branches and green leaves of a poplar tree tower over the upper left side border and a spruce tree fills up the right side border. Another large poplar tree can be seen behind the spruce tree on the right border. This tree has a mix of green and yellow leaves and extends up over the right edge of the deer stand in the upper right corner of the photo. The deer stand itself is made up of old, dark, grainy plywood. The stand sits up on a platform constructed of wood. The front of the stand has a long rectangular window extending half way down the side. A green board lays on the inside of the window with two oval cut-outs on the lower portion of the window. Another oval cut-out is made to the left of the window. Along the left side of the stand are three more oval cuts-outs which are all parallel to each other. One of these oval cut-outs were made in the forest green door of the stand. All the oval cut-outs have clear glass or plastic placed over the opening. A grey satellite is bolted to the upper left hand side of the stand. The roof of the structure almost lays completely flat but is slightly sloped. The bottom four edges of the stand have black braces connecting the wooden legs of the stand to the wooden platform. The four wooden legs of the stand are reinforced with two by four cross braces. An old wooden ladder stand rests on the left side of the stand and extends up to the forest green door of the deer stand. Light green moss covers the steps of the ladder. The bottom of the ladder and the legs of the stand disappear into the overgrown foliage. The title, The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair, tells us what Vaughn was representing. This picture captures the calmness of the forest and the peaceful beauty of the hunter’s lair.