@paulnmerrie @bennett-family just to add to what Lydia was saying with composition on photo 2….
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”
—Antoine de Saint Exupéry, source: WikiQuote
I read this quote from some random philosopher in a photography book, and I think it speaks a ton to us a photographers, especially with composition.
What was it about your subject—in your case, I suppose the pine tree—that caught your attention and made you say “I want to photograph that!”. Was it the spiny needles? Was it the way the light hit the back of it? Was it the fact that it was growing in a patch of dead twigs? Find what exactly drew you to the tree, and isolate that. Try to remove as many of the extra elements as you can that aren’t important to what you’re trying to convey. You can do this by changing your angle on the subject, changing your lens or focal length, or even adjusting the depth of field by the aperture number.
Here’s a little example I dug up:
The first photo is what I saw on my hike through a public park, but the second photo is a little closer to conveying what drew me to the subject.
Hope this helps!
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