'Ovals and a Rectangle'

This change booth attendant on a major European Metro is very

precisely framed. Your ratings, critiques and observations are

invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically, or with

to make an observation, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment; please share your photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

This photo is taken of a change booth attendant in the Paris Metro where the trains run overhead in the Southern part of Paris and thus are elevated.

At this point the photo was taken from  stairs down from the train or from a landing, late at night as the booth attendant broke for a rest possibly from his last work after the last train had passed and his work for the evening was through, as the doors to such booths are almost uniformly closed as a matter of security otherwise.

Note precise alignment of 'oval' or 'oval shapes' and how many there are, as well as their alignment with the rectangular doorway.

john

John (Crosley)

An interesting combination of the oval at the door and the oval of the head of this man.

There are actually three oval or oval shapes to my way of thinking even if one disregards the 'do not smoke' (defense de fumer) sign to his left (our right).

Can anyone figure my thinking out?

It's what 'makes' this photo for me.

And why I kicked myself when I found it in going over photos I previously passed over.

Svetlana, it's a little obscure so no kicking yourself for missing it; thank you for the kind comment.

Hope your flu/cold is getting better.

john

John (Crosley)

The three ovals referred to are (1) the oval of the window to the change booth; (2) the man's head which actually assumes in two dimensions a semi-oval shape (oblate spheroid, roughly), (3) his undershirt, which is roughly oval-shape, and (4) his sweater, which also is oval shape although it has a 'V' neck.

And they are precisely aligned, as noted at the start.

That's one reason, while not 'seen' at the first, I could not let this photo alone; it took me a long time to see' this arrangement, but eventually when I did, I 'understood' it and why it begged for posting. 

I like it very much precisely because it is not so obvious.

john

John (Crosley)