Rooting Manor, Kent

Magnificent capture! Stay well!

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Compo.

He and Nora Batty, certainly.

Not Nora's tights: tight composition. Completely ruins what could have been a good picture.
Am I looking at the oast or the chimney? My eyes are dazzled by the confusion.

You're looking at BOTH. The point of the picture is the quaint medley - ensemble - of buildings and their different shapes and architectural features.

I don't concern myself with what I'm supposed to be looking at; I just assume that it's the whole picture and everything in it, though not necessarily at the same time.

No, I'm not looking at both. I am drawn towards the oast house roof, but my visual comfort is disturbed by another focus (chimney) off to one side. Each element might be quaint in itself, but I find the "medley" rather disturbing. I am a whole-picture person and do not expect my eyes to be wandering about and looking at different aspects at different times.

Yes, as we've established, we perceive differently depending on whether we're left-brained, right-brained or no-brained, and the most we can do is to try to understand this, and if we are in a minority to realise that.

The works of most great painters are full of incidental or supporting detail arranged all over the canvas, which no viewer can possibly (or is meant to) notice and absorb initially or at a single glance.

It's not the amount of detail that matters, but how it fits within the whole picture. You have quite often drawn notes on my pictures to show how you would like them cropped, and I ignore most of your suggestions, because your sense of composition does not align with mine.

I don't know if there's any truth in the left-brained versus right-brained hypothesis, but, knowing that you're a stickler for rules, might I suggest that perhaps your chimney is dividing the picture in half, rather than being on these thirds you're always banging on about.

1. Ditto.

2. I don't quote or apply rules. I merely make observations.

Not quite ditto, because you do sometimes take notice of my crops, as you have with your photo of Little Chesterton.

Where I agree with them, yes. In most of those cases the pictures were taken in a hurry because I was in a walking group and getting left behind, and edited and uploaded in (too much of) a hurry at the end of a long day.

If you were a farmer, perhaps I would. They must require great depth of field.

Beautiful architectural image.