Photo #1: flamingos

Pentax SP500 Takumar SMC 135mm

Best viewed:'flamingos' On White

TechTata01
The birds take up the bottom 2/3rds of the picture. Seems to me a clear rule of thirds example.
From this discussion thread:
www.flickr.com/groups/utata/discuss/72157594189612005/

Photo #2: the snow man

"One must have the mind of winter
To regard the front and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted in snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."

Wallace Stevens

TechTata01
Not so sure about here. My eye starts at the bottom left but quickly starts to look at the snow detail and branch in a way that is not (to me) clearly broken down in to 3rds. Whaddya think?

Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/ for the following comment:
TechTata01
I pretty much agree... not much RoT here... though perhaps plays with another aesthetic... the appeal of the micro-detail... and that of branching patterns, fractals. But perhaps there was a RoT related composition that could have been shot that would have improved it? Who is to say.

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