Following rules have been broken:
Attention-getting subject
Emotional impact - grabs the viewer
Positive or negative response
Universal theme (intangible - ie. mother's love)
Principle of thirds
Does it work? I'd say that the repeated pattern of the fencing and the monochromatic color palette (no, it hasn't been converted to b & w) give a quiet, restful quality to the image.
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