Simplicity

Keep it simple. I've "preached" this before on this blog as I recall. While a complex photograph with many layers of detail CAN work, I personally find that the simpler the photograph, the more dynamic. Simplicity is not always easy to achieve. Our eyes self edit to a large extent, while the camera lens, as we are all too well aware, sees all. Thus composing for simplicity is the art form.

And as we also understand, photograph is about light. Simple light. Dramatic light. Puerto Vallarta. Sunset. One band of a gradation of sunset red, from the mere hint to the final glow before the sun breaks out of the upper cloud layer. And framed top and bottom by deep bands of black.  And enough hint of the shoreline dropping from on high to the waters edge. And just a glimpse of the sun bouncing off the water to give context.  Simplicity.