It's a natural instinct for the human eye to follow lines, so you can always put them to good use in your photographs as a means of assisting the viewer into the picture. Lines of one sort or another are pretty common in most scenes, but you need to pick something that will attract attention or is significant enough not to be missed. Roads, tracks, railway lines, fences, rivers or streams, rows of trees and various geological patterns can all be put to use in this fashion.
Obviously, to work successfully, these leading lines need to start somewhere in the foreground and then continue into the more distant parts of the scene. Parallel lines that converge, and may even reach a vanishing point in the distance, give a very strong…
