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The thing that I liked most about this photo is that there are so many things pulling your attention every which way, but they all start in the center, with the woman in the picture. She is wearing a reddish pink scarf which catches your attention immediately. However her scarf is being blown behind her by the wind, which then pulls your attention there as well. The lines of tents behind her pull your attention upward to the top of the frame, and lastly she is gazing off to the left of the frame, which again pulls your attention to what she is seeing. There are so many directions your eyes can go, but they all start in the center of the frame with her.
I like that the photographer included the white and blue tent top in the frame. It gives more color to the picture, but it also allows a sort of juxtaposition between the foreground (the girl and her temporary house) and the background (all of the lines of gray tents).
From where the picture was taken, there is one line of the tents in the background that appear to have been shot head on. This line of tents happens to fall on the right third line. It helps to give an image being pulled so many ways a little bit of a ground point. The lines of tents in that background are also parallel to one another which again helps to give a bit a form to an otherwise scattered image. Also, the way that most of the tents angle in toward the center of the image help to give it depth. This would not have happened if the photographer had tried to shoot the tents head on.

Jessica Myers