There was an interesting thread about a month or so back in which we (the viewers) were asked to comment on and critique a photograph by Ansel Adams (Moonrise Hernandez New Mexico), but with the stipulation that we should treat the photo independently of anything we know about Adams, etc. That was a tough assignment since, among other things, Adams is a bit of a god here on UHH, and because the photo is so damn famous.

I'd like to try this again but with a far lesser known photo, by a photographer whom I've never heard mentioned on this site (so may be unfamiliar to many here). It won't be completely anonymous I suspect since I'm sure some of you will recognize the photo, or may recognize the style of the photographer (especially if you're a street photographer). If you do know the photo and/or the photographer, please don't drop a spoiler on the thread. I think the exercise of having a blind critique is a really good one and I'm hopeful we can learn from it.

You can see that the photo breaks many of the rules of photography that we've had drilled into us, but we also know that it's okay to break the rules if you need to in order to get the result you desire. How do you rate the rule-breaking on this one? Thumbs up or thumbs down? And why?

I think it will be great fun analyzing, dissecting, deconstructing this photo. Have at it!

I usually carry my camera via peak design clip on my backpack strap: away from the midline as camera (especially with longer lens) in midline would obstruct my view of feet and ground (and short 5'4").
Recently in the Page AZ slot canyons I was presented with the problem that they did not allow backpacks (even empty). I ended up using my old carrying strap (using Peak Design anchor links I had for back-up) but was not happy. Also tried the clip on my belt, but it hangs too low and sticks out with danger of baking up the camera.

I have seen recent posts of different solutions (Move and Cotton Carrier) with the original slot replaced with a Peak design clip, but these place the camera+lens in midline.

My question for UHH: is there such a strap where the clip ends up away from the midline?

My first digital camera was one of the Kodak point and shoots in 2003-2004. Something like $260 I believe. I used it to photograph breeding livestock then email the image to the potential customer. About the same time we got a Sony Mavica at work with its floppy disk that would hold an astounding 6 images! I think it was like $700! 2006 i upgraded to a Fuji S5100. Cool camera but slow focusing made it useless for anything moving. For Christmas 2007 my kids gave me a Nikon D40. $450-475 I think. That’s when I found that digital cameras could actually be competent devices.