Rhythm

    Adding rhythm to an image is useful because it helps to draw the viewers eye across the frame, normally from left to right because that is the way we are used to reading. We add rhythm to an image by the use of repetition as found on the facades of buildings or rows of trees and the like. We are trying to add a beat for the eye to follow similar to that found in music. Generally this rhythm will continue across the frame and beyond its boundaries allowing the mind to continue it onward via the Gestalt Law of Good Continuation. ( Freeman, M.2007 )
   

Rhythm in Suburbia

    As you can see from my first example it does not continue out of the frame and the elements of the image are not exactly the same, but I do feel that it has a sense of building rhythm across the houses. This rhythm disappeared with even a slight change of shooting position.
   This image is reminiscent of the work of  Takashi Homma in the 1990's, his photographs of new Japanese suburban housing developments made with a total lack of a humanizing element were part of a movement first started in the 1970's against the use of land for housing and industrial purposes. ( Cotton,C. 2009 )

Rhythmic Forks

  The still life image above has been arranged to give multiple, quite sinuous rhythms. The first rhythm leads the eye up and down between the forks, which is unusual as the rhythm normally bounces across the frame. The secondary rhythms are made by the tines of the forks which help to draw the eye across the image. This image also extends beyond the frame allowing the rhythm to continue.

  Ref : Freeman,M.2007,The Photographers Eye,ILEX,Lewes.
          Cotton,C.2009, The Photograph as Contemporary Art,Thames & Hudson,London