Composition is the age-old art of arranging elements within a frame into the most visually pleasing, stimulating order. It is key to successfully communicating your ideas, vision, creativity, and message. The two biggest compositional challenges are how to balance the elements within the picture, and how to represent three dimensions in a two-dimensional medium. Nature photographers have colour, space, balance, symmetry, perspective, scale, motion, depth, and lighting at their disposal to help bring their compositions to life. As the natural world rarely stays still for long, wildlife photographers often must make decisions very quickly. In time, you will start to do this intuitively. However, at first, there are several useful compositional ‘rules’, tips, and techniques designed to help you capture striking and well-balanced photographs every time. We get some expert…