The Power of Patterns

A pattern isdefined assomething that occurs three or more times, imposing a sense of order and rhythm. Patternsare strongly embedded in nature, in our lives, and in our photographs. We crave them.

In her book, Sight and Sensibility, Laura Sewallsays that “patterns arise naturally when our eye follows an edge.”Sheuses the example of a tree. We follow the line of the tree trunk up to the first branch, then to the next, and the next. We become aware of the patterning of the branches. The branchi...