I have just finished my English Assignment. 2500 words about materials evaluation and adaptation, non-teachers need not bother about what that means. My hands are cramping from being scrunched up too long over the mouse; that usually only happens after a long game of DOTA, so you can tell how long I have been at it. Before i go collapse in a heap on my bed, I thought I'd include another photography post. Heh.

A picture is well composed if it constituents - whether figures or apples or just shapes - form a harmony which pleases the eye when regarded as 2-dimensional shapes on a flat ground.
Pete Murray

Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary
From photographs we can learn more about the world. Images not only inform us about the products we never knew we need, the events, people and places too distant or remote for us to see with our own eyes, but also tell us more about the things we thought we already knew.
Most of us are too preoccupied to stand and look at something for any great amount of time. We glance at something briefly and think we have seen it. Our conditioning or desires often tell us what we have seen or would like to see. When we look at a photograph of something ordinary however, it may show us the object like we had never seen it before. With a little creative imagination and a little photographic technique, it is possible to release the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Filling the frame
When the photographer moves closer, distracting background can be reduced or eliminated. There are less visual elements that have to be arranged and the photographer has much more control over the composition. Many amateurs are afraid of chopping off the top of someone's head, but that is permissible if your intention is to draw the viewer's attention to the face and the subject's features or expression. Eliminating a part of the background can bring the the attention of the viewer to the intended subject of the photo.

Diagonal Lines
I think I have this down in previous entries on photography, but I thought I'd add it anyway to reinforce - Diagonal lines are more dynamic than horizontal or vertical lines. They set up a dynamic tension or sense of movement within the picture.

Quality of light.
The smaller the light source, the harder the light appears. Hard light create dark shadows with well defined edges.
The larger the light source, the softer the light appears. Soft lights, eg sunlight diffused by clouds or light that has been reflected of a large bright surface, have less dark shadows and the edges are not clearly defined.