Exercise:- Rain.

"Imagine a magazine cover on one subject; rain.  You have the entire cover space to work in and you should produce a single, strong, attractive photograph that leaves no one in any doubt about the subject.  This is first an exercise in imagination, here are some guidelines:-

• Think of all the effects of rain that you have ever seen.
• Keep it simple.
• Be interesting; don't settle for an ordinary middle-distance shot of a street in the rain.
• With some picture ideas you need no wait for a rainy day.
• If you can't be completely original, at least make  the photograph attractive.
• Even if your idea is original, still make the photograph attractive".                                              

The photograph chosen for this exercise was taken at New Brighton a favourite place of mine and somewhere I've taken many of the images for this course.  It is also a dog walker, one of a group of people that have been subjects for my photographs previously.  I can identify with the picture, being a dog owner myself, I have on many occasions had to go out in conditions like this.