Day 54 - March 3: Boy Scout Merit Badge

Forgive me if I break the rules and feature a photograph taken by my son today.  Stuart is pursuing the Photography Merit Badge and spent the morning with an instructor, five fellow scouts, and my camera.  Other scouts were busy in the kitchen, making pastry - and serving as models for the shutterbugs.  Stuart's instructor particularly liked this photograph, in which Stuart applied the rule of thirds, "which dictates that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.  Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would".  And here I thought I just had to snap a picture everyday - clearly, I've got a lot to learn.