Vertical Motif

Sometimes you can isolate elements in an environment that group naturally together—low clouds making horizontal lines over the horizon, a seaway or roads, for instance. Here, these palm trees make a vertical vanishing point symmetry with the Buffalo monument at Glenelg, South Australia, commemorating the landing place of the first European settlers in 1836. I cropped the image to exclude ground clutter and the overhang of a building to the left, which streamlined or de-cluttered the image, and the only detraction now is the wires strung between the posts. I could go in and remove them digitally, but that seems like kinda cheating. I took this shot on the 20^th of October, 2016, during an outing with my sister-in-law from across the water. The image is just as it came off the card, with the exception of some fine rotation and the cropping. Fuji FinePix S5600. Image by Mike.