Guidelines............

[luckydog]

I thought this covered basic composition quite well........

http://photoinf.com/General/KODAK/gu...mposition.html

[Chacha]

Thanks LD,

That is a good guidelines.... :ernae:

[JorisVandenBerghe]

It gives some great ideas indeed. I have heard of most of them before, but the most important one I read in these is this:

Think of these not as rules but as simple guidelines.

Another thing you could try is playing with the placement of the horizon. You could place it lower than you'd normally do (those with a tilting screen on their camera like on my A350 will benefit from this), resulting in this picture.
A comment on this one:

This can give a picture the feeling of depth it needs to make it more than just another snapshot.

Nick (Churchill) has uploaded one recently, nicely showing how you can do this, with a valley in the background and a tree in the front - a textbook example. I can't link to the picture at Facebook, perhaps he could be so kind to show us ? Nick really should start a Flickr account...as you know he makes great photographs.

Well, in fact nearly everyone who is into photography should sign up at Flickr. Even the free account version I'm using at the moment has plenty to offer...

[Cloud9Gal]

LD~ Thanks for posting this! I bookmarked it! I just finished reading the "Rule of Thirds", and can already tell you I will benefit from that little lesson.