Plate G5.no15: Umbrella Tree – near Hadrian’s Wall (Cumbria)

There are rules to photography, as there are rules deemed applicable to all 2D works of art: of composition. The rule of thirds for example……
It’s a guide really, for who can really say there are rules in creative acts. Nevertheless, I sweated over the composition of this picture, re that particular rule.
When taken, I positioned the tree, instinctively, off centre, and to the left – but originally there was considerably more picture to the right, of nothing really. No feature to warrant inclusion – hence, I began cropping – and I wonder yet if I got it right. Not because I satisfied the rule, but whether I retained enough of the emptiness. Because that was what caught my attention, of this tree, so blessedly highlighted yet exposed, and alone…