Week 3 - composition

I was busy for week 3 and didn't get around to my homework, so I'm using week 5 for catching up on week 3, which is composition.

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Okay, so I had a nice long email chat with Brooke about composition and how I was feeling overwhelmed with the pressure of being super unique and creative for composing my shots.  And she helped to me realize that I can use good composition tools even in very normal, everyday situations.  Which was encouraging because that's where I'm taking my pictures most of the time.  I think my most used composition tool is simplicity, but I did venture out to find some quick, simple backgrounds.  These first two locations are both at gas stations.  I was using lines and textures in this one.

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I was trying out the framing in this one.  I'm thinking that the bottom of the building is a little distracting though with the weeds and chipping paint.  Would you have done something differently in composing this shot?

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This is using a little of simplicity and lines.  I find myself cutting off at joints often, I need to work on that.  Where do you normally cut of bodies when you don't want the whole body in it?  I don't always want the whole body?  Is where I cut off here okay?

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Using lines and texture again.  I could have used the beach one from my last post for a composition shot but that's more lines and texture.

So it looks like I'm pretty decent at finding lines and textures but I struggle with branching out of that.  Any suggestions of how to use more of the composition elements?