You know what springs to mind with me on my first sight of this excellent shot? Playing softball in the Sunday leagues that used to play here in the '80s! Seems like yesterday!

Magnificent shot! Stay well!

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Nice picture, but Roy doesn't like square. He's happy with the foreground, though.
The tiny people give a sense of grandeur to the monument and sky.

Whether he likes square or not, this and other pictures of mine are square BY DESIGN, i.e. composed at the time of taking for a square frame.

A camera that offers a choice of aspect ratios facilitates this, the viewfinder image being the chosen shape, in this case square. The new camera has this feature, my primary reason for buying it.

Ditto 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.

Roy says, if you must be a square, then at least crop that raggedy bit on the left-hand edge.

And what has happened to that amazing shot of the crazy palace?

I replaced the image yesterday but forgot to reset "Visible by" to "Everyone" afterwards. Sorry. (Perhaps the Palace was built for George III).

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The raggedy bits make a nice soft frame for the harshness of the memorial superb composition.

Thanks, John. You have very good judgement.

The pluralisation suggests that he hasn't sussed what Roy meant.
I too love the way the TREES make a nice soft frame for the memorial.

wonderful image:)

Excellent shot.

In which case, nor have I; sorry. What did Roy's note say? (I've forgotten).

Roy said, if you must be a square, then at least crop that raggedy bit on the left-hand edge,
and he left one of his helpful cropping suggestions, which in this case was deleted.

It simply involved cropping out that hole in the foliage about halfway up,
with a corresponding slight reduction in the top blue.

Apart from tidying up the edge, this would make the memorial and cloud more of a focal point.

Looking at the picture as a whole, with all its elements, it seems to me that the runners to the left are perfectly placed. To crop the left of the frame would move the runners too far over. My solution to the 'hole' in the left hand tree would be to clone some of the tree into it. This may be a heretical thought, but I'm afraid that it is part of my method. (NB I don't pretend to be a landscape photographer!)