Frame It

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

It’s never too late to brush up on the basics, right? For you amateur photographers out there, here’s a brush-up article “Framing Your Shots – Photography Composition Technique ” from the Digital Photography School . And, today I learned that what I thought was “framing” wasn’t: “Framing is the technique of drawing attention to the subject of your image by blocking other parts of the image with something in the scene.” I thought the concept was more about composition and not specifically about creating a frame around the subject in the picture. Maybe I never really thought about it. Yay learning.

About the author

Dag Hammarskjold (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was elected. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.