Project 2 Reflective Essay

I'm not sure I have the verbal tools to talk about the topic at hand, but I'll give it a shot:

In this image, the human scale of Batman in the foreground and the widows' walk fence at his feet show the scale of the buildings in the background. The mists show the distance to the buildings, which emphasizes their size.
The background's warm browns underlit with reddish glow contrast with, and at the same time model (note the shoulders and cape edge) the foreground's contrasting blacks. The flames from the background chimneys provide a different sort of contrast with the misty, shadowy buildings than the foreground snow's contrast with the blacks, providing a sort of metacontrast (the mist/fire contrast in the background contrasting with the snow/shadow contrast in the forground). Midground is firmly established by a more human-scale, dark brown building with a contained dark/fire contrast in the windows softened a bit by the mists.
The black line across the bottom leading to the human figure emphasizes the flow of the eye across the picturefrom the top center tallest building's lights, following the rain to the midground building and on to the Batman, placed at the lower right to become the sympathetic center of focus.
The widows' walk fence serves as a repoussoir.

http://lifesessions.com/wallpaper_free_desktop/images_1680_1050/istanbul_blue_mosque.jpg

IN this Istanbul blue mosque, the warm amber light on the surrounding midground straight walls contrast with the grayer background's oval structures; the spires (mostly midground) are the very antithesis of the building's domed roofs. The foreground rooftops and trees establish scale for the entire picture. The foreground obelisk on the left balances the background buildings on the left; the spires interspersed through the image show depth.

http://www.portlandbridges.com/00,DREB0CRW07046,23,0,1,0-portland-oregon.html

This Portland cityscape's foreground silhouette repoussoir frames the city in the midground with the misty Mount Hood in the background. The stone gray and brick colors mottling the city contrast with both the long greens and blacks of the foreground and the monolithic white shape emerging from the background's broad blues. The human scale in the foreground emphasizes the tallness of the midground buildings which in turn blend into a dark strip that reveals the distant hugeness of the mountain.