A big thank you to RR for hosting yet another Free Sunday. And thank you Pat on your 2016 Goals Challenge....a great start for a year of accomplishments and learning in 2016.

In a landscape photo, portrait photo, still life or any other kind of photo, the first major task of the photographer is to draw the viewer’s eye to the most important aspects of the shot and keep it there!

"We want our photo to send some sort of message. If not, we shouldn’t be taking the shot. So we want to be certain that our viewer’s attention is focused in the right area. By the way, the message we’re sending could be as simple as wanting them to see an attractive cloud formation or some pretty colors in a rainbow—whatever.

We’re taking the shot because something in that scene attracted us and we want the viewer to see it, too.

This is actually the whole point to the photo composition rules. To make sure the viewer sees what we want them to see in the scene."

The above was copied from the following article from PictureCorrect:

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/diagonal-lines-in-landscape-photography/

Just a couple to start this challenge off......