Echoing the Lady of the lake (Patreon)

Valentina the black pearl visited me in Denmark over the summer, and we did a morning shoot in a lake near my home. 

I've touched upon composition several times here, and one of the components I look for when composing images is creating echo patterns. 

That creates a pattern that mimics something else in the frame as the brain favors things it can classify, and it just feels right.

So now you know why she is holding her arms at that slight off-angle above her head.

Similarly, in the last picture, because I had two rocks slanting toward the right, I had Valentina Take up a similar slanted position as the rocks - which incidentally worked out nicely with the light.