Stripped down to its bare essentials by removing colour and any details that don't fit, this composition is all about angles and shapes - triangles to be more precise.
I took the photo that forms the basis of this final image while strolling the decks of the P&O liner Arcadia as we sailed on through the Mediterranean.
As usual the sun was shining out of a clear blue sky, picking out the white painted details in the structure of the moveable roof over one of the pools.
As an amateur photographer I'm always on the lookout for graphic shapes, either manmade or in the landscape, and a single shape repeated over and over, as is the case here, really gets my creative juices flowing.
To take this photo I carefully lined up all the elements I wanted included in the frame, including the roof as a diagonal sweep from one corner of the frame to the opposite.
But for me the element that makes this image come alive is the tiny moon, framed by the exaggerated roof structure.
This tiny moon is the only non-straight, natural element in the scene, but due to the fact that its so unlike the contents of the rest of the image its presence highlights even more effectively the almost brutal nature of the roof structure against which it is placed.
Filename - ship arcadia roof 02.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 29mm
Exposure - 1/25sec @ f16, ISO100
Location - Somewhere in the Mediterranean sea
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Hand held exposure with lens stabilisation.
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