FRAMED
B-2 bomber and Golden Gate Bridge, 2011
In this sense, framed means another frame within the scene. Windows, doors, and other man-made openings are frames onto another picture within the picture, and while there’s no compulsion to use them like this, it can work quite comfortably. In fact, if something is passing behind a window of some kind, the near-universal reaction is to shoot at the moment when that subject is cleanly within it, not breaking any of the edges. You could argue that this very natural photographer’s reaction makes it worth challenging, but in a case like this one you would have to be strong-minded not to place the aircraft ...
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