Lindsey Payne 903012906 Art Writing 1: "Shared Vision  Exhibition March 5, 2014 Mark Klett's September 2000 photograph titled View from the Tent at Pyramid Lake is a 23x29 3/16 inch photo taken in the linear perspective. In the foreground, we see the inside of the tent where a camper's outstretched legs lay upon a mat next to a few supplies. The foreground also displays the walls of the tent on the left and right sides of the image, somewhat of a negative space, with a triangular opening in the center. This opening is filled with the landscape of the lake which occupies the middle ground of the photo. It shows a sandy beach right outside the tent just past the camper's toes, still water slightly beyond the beach and the rocky pyramid across the lake. The background is a distant horizon line showing a mountainous Nevada landscape. When observing this photo words such as serene, peaceful, and relaxed come to mind as the person lays inside the tent observing the beautiful nature scene surrounding them. The subject and central focus of this photograph is clearly the landscape of Pyramid Lake. We can see the pyramid for which the lake is named centered and almost framed by the edges of the tent, where the lines seem to parallel the edges of the pyramid. This framing gives a strong composition allowing the geometry of nature to be exaggerated and fully emphasized. This pyramid is surrounded by the light blue skies and water creating a beautiful image for the viewer from the inside of the tent. The light gently touching the top of the pyramid gives the photo another element of beauty as the sun illuminates it ever so softly. There is a great amount of depth to this photo created through the use of a pseudo negative space, being the tent walls, along with the mountains in the horizon laid just behind the pyramid. While the photo is not exactly vibrant and exciting, it conveys a beautiful image of a natural setting. The colors in the photo are not intensely saturated rather they are so