One part of the whole by mcsiegle

One part of the whole

Finally getting around to sharing my experiment from May — inspired by Katy @grammyn who began a Half and Half May with diagonals. While I was doing my usual vertical and horizontal Half and Half pics, I started playing around in my “Experiments” album — marking all the photos, as I posted them, as restricted so I could keep rearranging the monthly view until I liked it. It’s been marinating for a while and I figure it’s time to share the result.

Here’s where this picture is posted in that album:
https://365project.org/mcsiegle/monthly-views/2019-05-15

You’re welcome to look at the individual images, but the work of art is the monthly view:
https://365project.org/mcsiegle/monthly-views/2019-05

Maybe at some point I’ll post a screen print. If you go backward from there to the April monthly view you’ll find another experiment with the diagonal patchwork construction. It’s more constrained and uses pattern and repetition and fewer different images. I don’t like it as well, but it was worth experimenting.

Postscript: Hmmm...I see that, although I renamed that album “Experiments,” the URL is still set as “monthly-views” — its previous title, which corresponds to its original purpose. The first experiment (since abandoned) used some previous months to try to devise an easier way of skimming through past years.
Oh - I love your calendar view and I wish I could FAV it! Your precision with each day meeting the next is perfect!
Very well done and you should make a calendar view shot for us to FAV and therefore keep in our Favorites.
August 3rd, 2019  
Looked at your calenderview! Stunning.
August 3rd, 2019  
We are gp-partners again next week! For your challenge could depict in one or more photo’s what the word sound means to you?
August 3rd, 2019  
Interesting Dutch tilt. The fence is silhouetted nicely against the evening sky.
August 4th, 2019  
That made a really nice month. Quite an undertaking. If we have a half and half month again, I hope I remember to do at least some diagonals. Love the colors in the sky also.
August 4th, 2019  
Your month calender is stunning!!!
August 4th, 2019  
@farmreporter wish I'd typed that!!! She is clever that Mary isn't she!!!
August 4th, 2019  
@jacqbb That sounds like a real challenge! How to represent the meaning of that word visually. I’ll have to put on my thinking cap. Thanks!
August 4th, 2019  
@grammyn I figured since you were the inspiration for this I ought to tag you in case you drop in on 365 for a break in your studies and other commitments.
August 4th, 2019  
@farmreporter @jacqbb @randystreat @shutterbug49 @30pics4jackiesdiamond Thank you so much for taking the time to check out the monthly view art piece and comment on my experiment. When I get around to taking a screen print of that monthly view, I’ll tag you to let you know.
August 4th, 2019  
Incredibly awesome! Thanks Mary!
August 4th, 2019  
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