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Breaking the rules is a good news / bad news story, it works sometimes and it does not work most often.  But if you break the rules and it works you have a wonderful photograph.

Some of the rules are:

    1.   Have a definable subject

    2.   Keep the horizon straight

  3.   Have a strong graphic elements

I have seen very good photographs that did not have a strong subject, what I call chaos photography, where the lack of subject was the subject.  There are examples of rotated images that work well.  And I am sure you can recall images you liked that did not have strong graphic elements.

In this image we have an interesting rainbow spectrum of vertical bands of color that look like they just came out of a prism.  As a background they are interesting.  The grass is not a strong subject because there is a confusion of patterns created by the number of elements with lack of graphic definition.  Another consideration is the photo-artist’s technique of rotating the image 180 degrees.  In this case it has added to the graphic uncertainty of the grass.  I feel the photographer broke too many rules for this image to work. 

I would suggest trying to find a simpler pattern of grass, one, two or three stems that create an interesting pattern.  As always it is the photo-artist who has to decide if the final work is what they were after.

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