Still Composition

I took this photo on Sandy Beach in Douglas, Alaska, over spring break. This photo tells the story of what Douglas used to be. A hundred years ago it was a thriving mining town before it was lost to a big fire. You can see the old salt house and where the dock was, inviting ships to the island. It illustrates the compositional principles of rule of thirds, the diagonal rule, and vectors. The broken down wooden posts are remains of what used to be a wharf on the beach. The trail of them leads the eye down the z-axis of the frame. Following the rule of thirds, the horizon line is two-thirds up from the bottom and the wooden posts all fit into left two thirds of the photo horizontally. They also serve as vectors, pointing directly up.