Another thing you will start reading an aweful lot about as you get into photography is sharpness. Sharpness is often talked about as if a picture can't be good without it. In truth, a lot of this probably stems from the difficulty of achieving reasonable sharpness with your average digital SLR and kit lens. Sharpness can be nice, especially if there is something really soft to contrast it to, but sometimes what is important is just the pattern of colours and tones across the frame.
This is a picture including a little water from the fountain outside the Museum of Islamic Arts and a nice sunset sky. There is just enough form in the water to make it recognisable but what makes the picture is the patterns of light across the sky and the balance of light and dark diagonally across the frame. Remember, what you see through the viewfinder is something real but what gets recorded on the film must stand on its own as a complete picture.
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