Thank you for sharing your vision for the photo; it helps to know how you viewed it. My tendency is to look at composition first so the lines, patterns and geometrics are what I considered to be the photo with the gentleman as an incidental. That is why I asked if the gentleman was necessary for the scene; compositionally he doesn't add to it.

Now that I know you were using him for scale I am able to view this another way.

Now I would like to ask a question of you and the others here just to see how others think. I am trying to expand the way I view a photo; to see it more than one way.

UserID made a crop of the photo making the gentleman more prominent in the scene. Does the crop take away from the story Rab-Eye is trying to tell?

I'm not trying to start a war; just asking if the crop still tells you the story that Rab-Eye's does.

Dodie

Thank you, User ID! "Just more ways of looking at it" is how I took your edits. Currently, I am focusing my "photographic studies" on being able to view a photo from more than one opinion/idea/possibility. Not for the purpose of making corrections but to see it from different sides.

I don't think I phrased my question to get the answers I was expecting and I am going to try to find a photo that will hopefully allow me to find the answers.

Rab-eye's photo started me thinking along a certain line and your's gave me a different train of thought. I appreciate both you and Ben answering my questions. Your answers have given me a little more insight into what I'm trying to figure out.

Dodie