'The Airport Concourse'

A very aged passenger wends her way down a slight ramp striped with

anti-skid material in a concourse at a major US airport recently. Your

ratings, critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If you

rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark, please submit a

helpful and constructive comment; please share your photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

You were lucky/timed your capture of this passenger while alone in this wide concourse;one can clearly see in the stance that the person,although holding on tightly to her walking stick, is in a "breaking" mode and aiming for the level surface clearly in sight and only a few more steps away.It seems obvious the person missed the sign,if there was such a sign pointing to that handrail along the edge of the wall that would have offered some extra assurance.........Did I see what you saw?Excellent image!

Meilleures salutations-Laurent 

Laurent J. Frigault

Yours is an excellent read of this photo; you have seen more in it than I the photographer, and your interpretation of it is excellent.

This is Laurel, whom one minute I was speaking to on an elevated departure area, and the next found her wending her way slowly one step away from this capture, my camera draped around my neck at my waist with two others I was testing.

I rushed the camera to my eye, got off three shots of which this is the first, and the rest were useless as the composition was off and they were blurred due to my having rushed it and no V.R., but luckily it only takes one.

This was shot at ISO 200 and 1/8 of a second before dawn under airport concourse lighting, hence her motion blur, as I had no time to reset my controls and had not yet considered using the camera with the wide lens that day, so early (before 6:00 a.m.).

Let that be a lesson to me, yet once again, and to all street photographers; always have your cameras 'preset' for the circumstances, even if it takes a moment or two on entering a room or going for changed circumstances, or even being prepared to turn the adjustment wheel to 'auto' if in doubt.

Thank you Laurent for a more than able analysis . . . . I look forward to your fine comments.

john

John (Crosley)