The clean lines of rowing is why I chose it as my subject for the Rule of Thirds Challenge. This photo was taken from Christ Church meadow at the University of Oxford in England. I envisioned having strong horizontal lines, which are the boat and the shadow line. More subtly, what I consider to be the focal point of the image (though others may disagree) is the left-most athlete in the glare of the reflection, which is placed on the left-most vertical thirds line. Despite having used guide lines in Photoshop to perfectly place the lines when cropping, the photo does not look as textbook as I expected, but it was more visually appealing to me than some other more obvious crops and photos that I tried using The Rule.

Canon 550D
Canon EF 50 mm lens
50 mm
f/3.5
1/4000 sec
ISO 100

-Jeannie Moulton