Awesome challenge! I so totally enjoyed it! I went with my focal point being the cloud line(upper left corner) in my photo, rather then my daughter on the beach, so that it pulled you right into the skyline from the beach.
I tilted my photo so I don't know if you can still see how it lines up - but she was in the top left grid point - with all her goodies spread out before, lol.
The lilies were the focal point, and they line up with the intersection of the rightmost and bottom 1/3 gridlines.
Here's mine! I tried to put both kids' heads in a "dot," but it ended up more DS than DD. I swear I'm not playing favorites--it just looked better that way lol.
A chilly day to visit the zoo/aquarium here in Michigan but fun! I used the far left grids for my focal point (my son) but the sharks and rays were so fast, I didn't catch them too well! As you can see, i lifted the challenge example layout! I loved the look of it!
I had such a hard time with this. Then when my subject kept running around, I kept thinking of @zinzilah's bird. Lol.