 repetition works in photography and where you have the ability with your camera to compress elements to bring in ideas that you wouldn't normally be able to see and place them in relationship that we wouldn't really appreciate until we see it as a photograph and because of that relationship because of that repetition of pattern it makes the image all the much stronger you know there's this field of brown penguins and we kind of go brown penguin brown penguin and then oh look there's a white penguin there's an emperor emperor penguin yes or standing there our eyes are kind of filling in the blanks of the pattern as it were and then going oh there's something else you can also use shapes in a similar way you know when you have these these shapes they don't necessarily create a repeating pattern but you as a viewer get more comfortable about seeing the shape of what have you and then you go oh there's something different there