yesterday’s composition bumped with my hip

this is yesterday’s pile of beach rocks gently bumped with my hip. yesterday’s composition felt a little too…tight. i wanted to see the wandering stripe, but i didn’t want it to be the first thing you saw. i wanted it to reveal itself as you looked at the image. i like this image better. how about you?  i put these two images, along with a third completely random pile, on instagram and asked the folks over there to tell me which one they preferred. as i type this i already have over 300 replies.  i will tally them tomorrow, but so it looks like about 40% tight line, 50% bumped line, and 10% random. it’s been fascinating to read people’s explanations for which they prefer–a very interesting experiment for sure.

striped beach rocks from the mediterranean