Posted on February 17, 2026
The challenge this week is to crop an image to provide a new slant on the subject. This is one of my favourite parts of the editing process; after all, isn’t it always good at least to try and find a new angle on a subject?
For this exercise, I’ve cropped and rotated the original photo, which is of the exterior of one of the smaller shopping malls in Abu Dhabi, to produce something that is at the same time structured yet almost abstract. For comparison, I’ve also reproduced the out-of-the-camera image below.


Lens-Artists Challenge: Unusual Crop
Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Columns, Cropping, Lanterns, Lens-Artists, Street Lighting, Unusual Crop, Unusual Perspective
Posted on September 7, 2024
Another dramatic image of the ceiling of Beverley Minster.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns & Vertical Lines
Category: Composition Tagged: Architecture, Beverley Minster, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, churches, Columns, stone carving
Posted on December 30, 2020
There are few sights more awe-inspiring than the first glimpse of the soaring Nabatean Treasury in the ancient city of Petra.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns & Vertical Lines
Category: Travel Tagged: Architecture, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Columns, Nabatean Treasury, Petra, Travel
Posted on December 11, 2020
The opulent design of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi incorporates quantities of gold leaf.

CMMC 9 December 2020: Silver or Gold
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, CMMC, Columns, Gold, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque