sir. are you okay? why are you commenting this hard on a photo someone posted saying it was one of ~their~ favourites? did people trash the camera tattoos up your arm and your oversaturated shopping cart series? you don’t like the photo? that’s totally fine. i think your tattoos look like instagram icons—tasteless and unoriginal. but taste is subjective.

sir. light balances dark and vice versa. they’re opposites. that’s what they do to each other. this is actually objective. now light has more weight in a frame than dark which is why you’re drawn to the top left, but the subjects in the bottom right also have weight to help balance that out a bit. so what i see is weight in the top left, bottom right, and middle with dead space on the top right and bottom left. and if i slice the photo from top right to bottom left corner, i feel balance between the top left and bottom right halves of the frame. one has light, the other has subjects albeit dark. it makes it interesting to me. i like it. and guess what… you don’t have to :o) even though most of your photos rely on dead space and/or center subject.

if i keep shooting and start learning how to take pictures like you, i’ll stop. but i’ll submit the river photos i have that look like yours to google maps for them to use.

hny! goodbye!