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Some foregrounds are fairly incidental, others may become the dominant element in the shot. To really concentrate on the foreground, you usually need to work at close range and let it fill the frame. Very often the best way to get close is to get low. Sit, kneel, crouch, crawl – do whatever it takes. We take many pictures from a crouching or kneeling position, not because we’re lazy – all that crouching and getting up again is harder work than shooting everything from standing eye-level. It’s so we can get closer to the figurative eye-level of that butterfly on a thistle, or clump of grass, or hoar-frost encrusted boulder.

Just be aware it can occasionally lead to embarrassment; both of us have had concerned strangers asking if we’re alright as they find us lying on the ground; and your so-called friends may find it amusing to pretend they’re about to put their boot on your head!

Really wide lenses let you work very close to foreground objects. Even tiny shifts in your camera position can have a big effect on where or how large they appear, while making negligible difference to distant skylines. Get close, get involved, but keep looking at the whole frame.