Describing a picture in English

1) Introduction

The photo/picture shows ...

It was taken by/in ...

It's a black-and-white/coloured photo.

2) What is where?

In the foreground/background you can see ...

In the foreground/background there is ...

In the middle/centre there are ...

At the top/At the bottom there is ...

On the left/right there are ...

Behind/In front of ... you can see ...

Between ... there is ...

4) What I think about the picture

It seems as if ...

The lady seems to ...

Maybe ...

I think ...

... might be a symbol of ...

The atmosphere is peaceful/depressing ...

I (don't) like the picture because ...

It makes me think of ...

above   above   at   background   behind   below   beside   between   beyond
clothes   dam   focus   in   in   in   left   middle   next   on   on   on   painting
right   river   rocks   shirt   sky   there   there   to   towards

This  by Norman Rockwell is an oil on canvas
called the Glen Way Canyon. It shows an Indian family, a dog
and a horse  top of a canyon,  the
bottom of which,  is a river which has been blocked by a
dam. In the sky  it,  are two eagles.
The main colours are the yellow, red and brown of the
and the Indians' , the blue of the ,
the  and the boy's , and the white and
grey concrete wall of the , the dog, the horse and the eagles.
The  is the Indian family composed of a man, a woman
and a child. The father, who is wearing a red shirt, is standing
a piece of land, on what seems to be a platform
the river,  to the edge of the canyon
the foreground. His son is standing  him while
the dog is  him. The mother is sitting
a horse  the right of both.The dog seems to be
looking at the river , while the man and his son
seem to be looking at the dam  the middle ground.
The woman's gaze seems to stretch  all this,
the horizon  the background.The dam is in the
,  the mountains in the
and the family in the foreground. The two eagles are in the top
hand corner of the painting, flying towards the .