As
a photographer, I know that I can control the ‘depth of field’ of a
photo by adjusting the size opening of the shutter (F-stop). In everyday
terms, I can make the camera near-sighted, almost near-sighted or I can
give the camera perfect vision where everything will be in focus. But
even in the most perfectly focused photograph, detail will be lost when
the grain of the film can’t keep up with the impression made by the
light coming through the lens. If you get close enough to a photo, let’s
say with a microscope, all you see are fuzzy strands of photographic
paper.
In
landscape design we can control how much of the garden is visible in
one ‘take’. Do we lay out the beds so that the pattern and color can be
taken in with one glance? Do we conceal elements of the garden behind a
screen of lace-like foliage that puts the farther garden into fuzzy
focus? Do we build walls or fences that entirely conceal parts of the
garden creating an album-like effect, a page-turner?
These choices are the ways that you determine the speed at which your garden can be absorbed and appreciated.
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