Foreground focal point

- I was flying out of the…Burbank, California airport recently…and looked out the window and…snapped this picture, which I liked.…The bright city lights glittering below us.…A few moments later, I took this picture.…We're a little bit higher and I like this one better,…and it reminded me of a photographic technique…where when you're shooting a visto or panorama…which can be beautiful in itself,…if you put an object in the foreground,…you can create some drama and some contrast…just as this is doing.…The jet was lit up with its takeoff lights,…had not turned those lights off yet,…and so we're seeing the jet nacelle and the wing.…

It creates a cool contrast with the city lights below it…and I was thinking there's a counterpart to this…in graphic design and just in page layout.…It looks something like this.…Imagine this text is the glittering city lights…and all the letters, all the tiny serifs,…all the counters, all the openings, they create the detail…of this page that creates a very fine texture…against which we'll add our airplane.…