We had yet another big snow storm recently. This truck isn’t going anywhere soon. They’ll have to wait until the thaw.

The truck is about as close to the camera as I thought best, since it is the main subject matter. The panorama also shows how large the snowbanks are in the general area. Overall, the road uses up about 1/3 of the right portion of the picture.  The snowbanks on the far side of the road also act as a barrier to keep your eye in the picture.

Here is another picture of the snowy road after that snow storm. I tried to frame the photograph using the houses on one side and the snow bank and telephone pole on the right. I also tried to aim this little camera so that the sky takes up about 1/3 of the top of the picture. The curved road guides the eye slowly around the photograph because curved lines tend to slow down the eye as it travels in a picture.

We had a snow storm a few days ago. There’s a pile of it on someone’s car. On this photograph, I just wanted to show the pile of snow on the car and some of the snowbanks in the background. I did however, use the rule of thirds on the sky. That is the sky uses about 1/3 of the image.

This is a wide angle panoramic photograph of the pier posted previously. I mainly like this photograph because of the camera angle. The building on the left and the expanse of the pier itself on the right.

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A while back I posted a photograph of an old dam that I found. Here is the new improved version complete with a pedestrian bridge.

The railing leads your eye from the left edge of the photograph into the distance where it meets the walkway. The walkway and the dam below lead your eye across the image where the concrete part of the dam in the distance helps to stop your eye from leaving the photograph. Your eye tends to get boxed in where the dam is.

The water spilling over the dam has lines in it, leading the eye along the spillway to the calmer water of the river.

Here is a clock tower of a town I was passing through recently. I had to stand far enough away to get the entire tower in the photograph. I also got two peaks of the roofs at each side of the picture. It helps to frame the photograph, keeping your eye on the subject matter. Unfortunately I got a power line, which does detract from the photograph.

Here’s the milkweed seed pod that has burst open. Geometric shapes can give a photograph both order and stability so your eye doesn’t jump around (or off) the photograph erratically. This composition is mainly made up of triangles. The first triangle is the tip of the milkweed pod that has burst open. The second triangle is between the three seeds in the middle of the fluff. It’s at a different angle, however, the repetition adds to the composition and the stability. The last triangle is the milkweed pod at the bottom of the image.

The last part of the photograph that makes this photograph very stable in appearance is the horizontal line formed by the railing in the background. It’s almost like a horizon line.

This is a statue titled “children of hope”. It’s offset to one side to add interest to the photograph. It also tends to make the photograph more dynamic. I tried to fill the frame with the statue to prevent other nearby objects from drawing your attention away from it. I also photographed it from an angle where you can see all three children in a small space in relation to one another.

Here’s my favorite flower, portulaca. I filled the frame with flowers as much as possible to get as many flowers as I could and have each flower a reasonable size.

Here’s another shot of that Golden Hawk Sabre Jet that shows off the colors better. Not framed as well though.