I went through some of my past photos and I just noticed that I take a lot of photos using the rule of thirds without realising it. I had always thought the composition of them looked best this way, but before this course I didn't know about putting the focal point of the photo on the intersection of two of the lines. Could you please give me some feedback and tell me whether I'm interpreting the compositional techniques in these photos correctly?

 

The first photo is of a Buddhist monastery. I'm not sure if the monastery is on the intersection of two thirds because it takes up a lot of the photo so it's hard to tell. There are leading lines in the two rows of plants leading your eyes in to the middle of the photo, then the cars draw my eyes left to the building. The plants coming right up to the foreground of the photo I think would use the force foreground technique.

 

This photo of my daughter has her head roughly at the intersection of two thirds. It also uses room to move/negative space in front of where she's looking and her sight line goes out of the frame. I think it uses simplicity too with the pebble beach, sea and sky in front of her. I think there's some patterns in the pebbles because they have lots of repeating indents in them.

 

This photo of my neighbour's cat has her eyes on the intersection of two thirds. There are leading lines on the table she's sitting on that lead your eyes towards her. The plant on the right gives her a bit of framing. Her sight line goes off out of the frame and there is room to move/negative space in front of her face where she's looking.