Downtown Seattle is a beautiful sight to see. Unfortunately I didn't take this picture, but Seattle is one of my favorite cities in the world, being from Washington.
As far as the composition of design, there's a lot going on in this image. The first one that stood out to me was the diagonal rule. The air streams in the sky grab the eye and drag them southeast across the top width of the image, specifically to Mt. Rainier. Mt. Rainier also has the diagonal rule with the lower left creating the background skyline and progressively moving northeast to the top of the mountain, and then back down southeast where it flows with the air streams. In addition, the air streams also function as an index vector in the image because of how they drag you across from the Space Needle to Mt. Rainier. I can look back and forth easily at those two because of the strong vector of the air streams. The rule of thirds exists in the image as well. The Space Needle functions as a vertical line, as does the location of Mt. Rainier. Mt. Rainier also sets the background horizon on a a horizontal third. The trees that appear the closest in the image set the bottom horizontal third where the top of the tree line meets with the bottom of the buildings. One could also argue that the lowest air stream functions as a third but my eyes see the horizon of Mt. Rainier as the third. The design of the city is mapped out with great surrounding features on the Puget Sound. This photograph captures them perfectly and represents the city well.
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