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Most beginners think they need to find a better subject. Very often, they simply need to stay longer with the subject they already have. These photographs of one rock on the shoreline show how light, angle, distance and timing can turn one ordinary subject into many different photographs.

Image One is the result of having the lens with nothing to stop the light bouncing around inside the lens, causing the same flare we've talked about before. But this particular morning there was something at stake - pretty cottages, a frosty field and a country scene.