Composition-Simon where are you ?

[Rehotshots@xxxxxxx]

Well, ok, it did sting a little bit, but not enough to get everyone all upset 
again.  Now, how to use energy in composition, until Marty comes up with 
another topic he would like us to discuss.  Photography is a form of 
communication and angles of view and juxtapositions can illustrate a feeling
that we get from our subject.  For, example, I was in a building the other 
day and there was this painting that was mostly sky.  The feeling I got from 
that painting was that , i was very small in the grandeur of this place.  I 
learned from the painting that not only was horizontal important, but where 
the horizontal
line in the photograph was drawn.  A hill, taken from a worm's eye 
perspective, pointing mostly toward the sky would create that same feeling of 
grandeur. 

Another point,  emotion.  We must be able to feel the energy of the place in 
order 
to shoot it, to portray it.  That means being able to feel.  It's a spiritual 
thing.  If it is 
a painful place, fall in love with the pain.  Check this out, if my computer 
will let me do it.  
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Well, that didn't work exactly, but overlap things, feel and find 
relationships of objects  that describe your feelings.  You have to be able 
to feel it.  I listen to 
Etta James to get in touch with my feelings.  and sometimes Wilson Pickett.   

Finally , have fun!  be spastic, just try it.  whatever you have done  before 
do the 
opposite,   it's all an experiment.  

Now, if someone doesn't post something "panoramic" were going to lose Marty, 
and we do not want that!  He says he doesn't know what he is looking for, but 
he'll know when he sees it, so please, someone out there enlighten us!  

                                       teri
                                        rambling muse