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Number 6 in my mini photo essay on angles/diagonals. If you eye follows the flow of the water, in particular the whitewater, it follows an angled line from top right corner down thru the image. You might not consider the lines of whitewater to be "a line" but they have the same visual affect in terms of the overall image. In the field, half a step to left or right, half a foot forward or back, half a foot of crouch or a rock to elevate you, can make a massive difference to the image you capture. Many of us keen amateurs forget that how our eye sees a scene is different to the camera. Our eye roams over a scene, shifting different areas into and out of focus, we tend not to notice that the composite image in our mind's eye is just that, a composite. Then we point our camera, snap it, get it home and can't work out why the impact we felt in the field is not in the image. The chances are good that in the field our eye naturally followed the best lines and angles, tended to settle there, got an emotional kick from the goodness of those elements, but it was all unconscious. We noticed the "wow" but not the "how". From time to time we get lucky and the shot we get home DOES capture the wow elements. Those are our learning moments, really LOOK at the shots that others see the WOW in, what are the elements present? I'm not suggesting anyone will get a wow moment from this shot. :) I'm just feeling a bit pontificatory today. :) I'll shutup now.

Enjoy.

Mikel.