Rules Broken: Rule of Thirds, large areas of negative space
Reason it Works: Subject is widely separated yet necessarily together to complete the scene; areas of negative space add to subject's vivid colors.
Canon EOS 20D
,Tamron SP AF17-50mm f/2.8 XR DiII 1/4000s f/2.8 at 46.0mm iso200
full exif
Thanks for the comments, folks. Tom, ";^) ... Gerry, you'll have to thank the skier for those colors. For those of you who don't ski, its a chance to be as wild as you can with your choice of colors in attire and equipment. Tho I admittedly do like to "play with color", these are the colors that were there. Kelly, most of these kites are quite easily steered and when one wants to stop, the kite is steered down to the ground, or in a emergency or a fall, as you suggest, one line is released. Aam1234, thanks, and oh well, some of us weirdos like snow. Cheers, -mikey
Very nice Mikey! If we weren't obsessing about extreme rule breaking, I bet this would have also looked nice with colors closer to earth. So how does that guy stop? I assume he's able to collapse his sail somehow or does he just let go of one line? - Kelly