Our World is in Living Color

Barcelona Beach Sculpture

Color says Wow! in a photograph. What better place to see color in operation than Barcelona, the city of Art and Artists, among whom Joan Miro and Picasso are just two of the better-known. Art is part of the landscape in this city, and my husband and I had been admiring the works of art placed throughout the city as we walked its many streets.

One of our strolls took us along this beach in the heart of the city. As I surveyed the scene to decide how I was going to photograph the metal sculpture to show it off against its environment, a young boy decided to stoop down and play in the sand right in front of me. His bright red shirt caught my eye immediately, and I shot, centering him so he didn’t block the sculpture. He draws my eye right into the shot, and created the third of the four elements of a Wow! photograph: light, color, action and pattern.