It occurred to me, looking at a print of this:
that many of my more dramatic landscape photographs are taken portrait. On the flip side, we have several prints on the walls of the office which the boss took in North Africa back when he was an anthropological film maker. These include several dramatic portraits which are taken landscape.

Is the drama purely from the non-conventional composition, the shock of the unexpected? How does this apply to other artforms? Has there been too much of a move to break the traditional forms and boundaries without enough exploration of how they can be bent?