"When you work in black and white, you're not distracted by color; you're looking at composition, texture, contrast and depth.
I've carried a camera since I was a teenager and whether you're using it or not, it means you look at composition, think about what around you would work well in the frame.
And Richard Strauss looked at composition basically as a 9-to-5 day job.
"We look at composition and content, how the elements of text and images work together, the style, the planes, depths and dimensions," said John Mercanti, the Mint's recently retired chief engraver.
If you are looking for obvious composition, his snaps of mass gymnasts exploit natural pattern.
But there are worse periods to explore when looking for innovative composition.
From the outside looking in, the composition of the Wells Fargo board seems to check all the right boxes.
Mr. Smith said Phoenix is to spend more than three months looking at the composition and chemistry of the soil samples to see what happens when the ice melts.
We see her first just out of the toddler stage; then as a young girl posed in a garden and indoors; then, in an oddly off-center composition, looking wan, her hair cut short.
In fact, looking at the composition of government expenditure, we find that the sum of pensions, health care, unemployment insurance, and education in Spain amounts to more than half of the government outlays.
Most studies looking at the composition and textures of phyllosilicates (Tomeoka and Buseck 1988), sulphides (Bullock et al. 2005) and carbonates (Endress and Bischoff 1996) indicate that Orgueil is the most altered member of the CI chondrite group.
