40 abstractions The upheaval!

Thank you both for your comments.

I have seen this at the backyard of the place I worked.

I heard it saying "shoot me!", "shoot me!".

(1) The clothespins are in full sunlight but the background is maybe 7 or more EVs (Exposure values) away, at least enough to 'throw it into black' which isolates the clothespins and lines as 'subjects' and keeps (focuses) the viewers' eyes on them.

(2) The subject is repetition, but 'broken repetition', noted in your title, which you have made 'universal' by giving it an onomatopoetic title (rebellion) suggesting these clothespins have 'human qualities. Good thinking and good captioning.

3. You did not use the clothesline to make a straight diagonal though the photo, although some might have, but instead understood that the pins themselves were the subject, and in your study of lines here (and intersecting lines is also what it is about,as each pin stands for at least one and maybe two straight line(s) intersecting the clothesline), you gave 'weight and mass photographically to the pins in apportioning how to divide your two 'triangles' (top and bottom) by using a diagonal to 'split the frame' - a diagonal being a very strong and dynamic line in a photograph.

A diagonal serves these purposes.

One, it draws the viewers' eyes from front to rear, engaging the viewer, and drawing the viewer in, just as an 's' curve or 'c' curve does.

Two, it defines both parts of the divided rectangle or square frame into triangles.

A triangle is defined as a geometric form with three angles -- see my Presentation on 'Three in My Photography' to help understand the importance and dynamism of presenting 'threes', as they can help define 'triangles' (as here) each of which is the most simple unstable (visually at least) and therefore dynamic figure in photography (structurally The most stable by contrast).

© 2009, John S. Crosley, and copyrighted because put in short words, what I've been trying to write in brief for four or five years and finally succeeded here.

Best to you Bulent, C.

Great photo and for simple, but complex reasons -- shows great understanding of photography, and if or when you can turn this on regularly everything you do will turn out great.

John (Crosley)

I am very pleased to see you here and I appreciate the detailed, scholarly comment.

I did consider alternative compositions while trying to shoot this; but only this one seemed to "fit"!