Abell (search for "Sam Abell" images) said that the image below had been given a great deal of recognition, and that it was his image most requested by other professional photographers. It is quintessential in its composition, and it provides a case lesson in how to make a two-dimensional image as three-dimensional as possible.
Great sky (lucky break).
Powerful primary subject (picturesque guy in classic hat castrating a calf, good left-hand-of-picture framing).
Layers: Sky, horizon, cowboy on horse well-silhouetted above horizon, two cowboys throwing calf framing cowboy on horse, guy carrying bucket of testicles forming right-hand border, and front-of-frame action.

I don't think the Abell picture below needs much explanation.

2 comments:
you didn't mention the bucket of oysters going to the grill.
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This dude of National Geographic it's famous everybody it's saying something about him and also hey great post keep up the good work.
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