Focus:Which areas appear clearest or sharpest in photography?Which do not?
Light:Which areas of photograph are brightest?Are there any shadows?Does the photograph allow you to guess the time of day?Is the light natural or artificial?Harsh or soft?Reflected or direct?
Line:Are there any objects in the photograph that acts as lines?Are they straight, curvy, thin, thick?Do the lines create direction in the photograph?Do they outline?Do the lines show movement or energy?
Repetition:Are there any objects, shapes, lines which repeat and create a pattern?
Shape:Do you see geometric(straight edged)or organic(curvy)shapes?Which are they?
Space:Is there depth to the photograph or does it seem shallow?What creates this appearance?Are there important negative(empty) spaces in addiction to positive(solid)spaces?
Texture:If you could touch the surface of the photograph how would it feel?How do the objects in the picture look like they would feel?
Value/Tone:Is there a range of tones from dark to light?Where is the darkest value?Where is the lightest?
Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Ansel Adams
All of the photos reach the elements for line because all of them have some type of line in them some of them also have light and shapes in them they all have different things all of them have more then one of these in the photo.