Ken Rennie
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I don't often post failures but I think that this is one and is posted to show what you shouldn't do in terms of compositin. This is the River Coupall with Buachaille Etive Mor in the background. This image was taken in May 2014. Lovely light, good but not perfect river flow, nice sky, good foreground rocks, fresh foliage starting to sprout on the birch trees, still a touch of snow on that beautiful mountain. However I was still at the " I am taking the view" stage and not able to or more importantly not thinking that I should be able to see what exactly interested me in "the view". So instead of analysing what exactly interested me and then working out 1) where to put it in the picture space and 2) what I want in the foreground to lead the eye to the main focus and 3) what I want in the background. In stead I just moved to where I could put all of my favourite bits into the picture. I have just re-processed this image to ameleriorate the worst effects of my poor composition. Ken