Now. The rest of this post is in response to a query about my photographs. All I ever needed to know about photography, I learned in third grade. My daughter’s third grade teacher way back when, actually, who casually mentioned to me one day, glancing at an art project of my child’s, that oh yes, she had taught the kids that pictures are most interesting if you can divide them up into threes. The eye likes odd numbers of things, not even: she demonstrated. A tree, standing alone. Perfectly centered square in the middle? Boring. But put that main feature so that it’s taking up roughly 1/3 of the space, or 2/3, especially if it’s somehow on the diagonal relative to the frame, to somehow give it motion: interesting. Thirds up and down, thirds side to side, either, or, better yet, both. If you can’t do that, make it at least off-center.
(Note that this amaryllis photo does not perfectly conform to what I just said because WordPress balked at the extra pixels. There’s perfection, and then there’s real life.)
Alright, class, homework is to go shoot your best flower picture. Okay–there’s the bell. Class dismissed!
And Canada, we are NOT having a snow day tomorrow.