Category Archives: Composition

Center Frame Portrait

This month, my life has largely revolved around the arrival of two new kittens into my family. I spent the entirety of January giddily taking photos of them at any given opportunity, and couldn’t resist making them the subject of both of my photo blogs for this month. For this prompt, a center-framed portrait that […]

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Balance in Holiday Traditions

For the last several years, my sister has made an annual tradition of baking a Buche de Noel every Christmas for our family to enjoy. It’s an absolutely beautiful dessert that she puts hours upon hours of work into, and also happens to appear extremely balanced in presentation. I decided to photograph this year’s Buche […]

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Leading Lines

To fulfill the prompt of capturing the “concept of infinity” using leading lines, I sought out a subject with lines that lead into each other. In my mind, this allows the viewer to infinitely circle their gaze around the image, never finding an endpoint in the matrix of lines. The barren trees in my local […]

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Symmetry Landscape

I struggled to find symmetry in nature for this prompt, but after an extended period of time spent studying my backyard, I decided to photograph this tree. I believe that this apricot tree, which is currently barren due to the season (and greedy squirrels), is the most symmetrical thing I could find in the outdoors […]

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