Triads are good compositional elements, a rule I willfully ignored when making this photo of some sprinkler valves on the campus of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

Rules are made to be broken, right?

Also, it didn’t seem right to ask someone to remove one of the valves. For one thing, I don’t know which one I would have wanted out of the picture (literally).

Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2014