Photo tips - #SaturdaySnapshot

I came across a YouTube video giving five easy tips for improving your photos. It's worth a look: HERE.  One of the suggestions for better, more interesting photos is to shoot through something. The photographer also suggested: "Place objects in the frame that relate to it. Tell a story." Those two suggestions seem related to me. So, I decided to take a look at my photos and see if I could find examples of where I might have accidentally done those things. Here are a few possibilities.

This one was shot from a castle's ramparts along the Rhine River in Germany.


At the base of Snoqualmie Falls in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

Trail of the Shadows, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

I took this photo of a platter of Ethiopian food during a recent dinner out. I'm not sure if I've accomplished what the guy in the video had in mind, but the items on the edges of the photo do relate - the  rolls of injera (bread) and the hands of the owner/server as she described each dish. Then there'salso my son's hand as he contemplates what he's going to reach for first!

Whether my photo "artistry" succeeded or not, it's fun to try techniques to make my pictures better.
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