Compose your Frame

Driving up to Pine Valley, this spot gets me every time.  Why? Probably because it adheres to many of the suggested "rules" of photography.  The most obvious is the rule of thirds the Church and the road are on the direct intersections of the horizontal and vertical lines and are thus the focal points.  Additionally, the horizon line and more or less the mountain line line up horizontally in the frame with the landscape divided into thirds.  Leading lines are included as the three lines on the road draw your eye into the picture.  Diagonal lines create movement as the closes line (which is also aligned  with the second third of the frame) draws you down the road toward the trees.  Figure to ground is used as the contrast between the focal point the church and trees is exaggerated by the white church and the dark trees.   Patterns and repetition are in use with the poles of the fence leading to the focal point.  Also the pattern of the trees along the horizon line is present and is interrupted by the white church which is a bonus point!  Lastly a motion vector is present. There are three pointing shapes; the road, and the two sections of grass that lead the eye towards on of the focal points in the composition.