Patterns

​Human beings are great at pattern matching, which can be exploited with your photography. A repetitive pattern alone is often sufficient to make an excellent composition and pleasing image, but breaking the pattern can be equally effective. Though the adjacent images are not shot in exactly the same way you can see the difference in a broken pattern versus unbroken. There is no 'right way' here, they are two different images but the similarity of topic and framing does show the difference in technique very well. 
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​Whether broken or not patterns can make for interesting photographic subjects. Patterns don’t have to be identical things, repeated patterns can be in colours or similar shapes or both or any number of other topics, but patterns do make great topics and picking them out is a very good compositional tool.  The gallery below shows more examples of patterns both broken and unbroken.   
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​Patterns can be found anywhere and everywhere and are useful on occasion for providing depth as in this shot taken in downtown Calgary. The ever decreasing pattern leads you down the corridor, unfortunately to a city bus at the end, which is a bit of an image killer. Patterns occur everywhere, in both natural and man made environments and are another valuable compositional tool.