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This is a fantastic composition! My best compliments!

beautiful image, I like the contrast between the graphic nature of the regular dots (windows ?) and the walking person. It works well.

It is almost a graphic image. I like the very accurate composition and the funny white dot. You created a very special world. Compliments.

Intriguing scene!Is this a ship tied at a wharf?Good use of the wet pavement to get that good reflection and you get the viewer(me) thinking if that person might be interested by that door to get out of the rain.Skillfully composed and most excellent image.Bravo!

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Beautiful and original composition!

Very interesting photo. Thank You!

This is Cinema

Thanks everyone!!

Yes, this is ship in background.

Beautiful composition!

Excellent capture ... very well composed !! (6) Kind regards

In spite of the modern forms of the background which are even abstract, this is for me still a classic BW photo like those which I was looking at in my youth in the textbooks for photography!

 

Seven all the way and congratulations, Goran!

 

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Excellent work! (6)

Beautiful photograph in terms of composition and originality, Well done!

Very nice composition. What I think would have been really cool is if the umbrella was pure black. Then it would look like the one black 'dot' had actually transferred to the umbrella, which I think would fit right in with the title. There is the danger though that had the umbrella been black, it wouldn't have been discernible as an umbrella, so perhaps a bit more space above the head would have been needed.

I find the scene highly photogenic and all depends on how it is treated as photography.
For me too much was included in this shot. The four rows of round windows (?) on the wall are already a graphical pleasure, mainly because of the one odd white one. The strange (drawn) door in the wall and its reflection in the wetness of the road, together of course with the man and umbrella and the two white horizontal lines create another graphical delight, well attuned to the "rounds" on the wall. But finally, of some reason or another a line of rounds from the wall are reflected at the bottom of the frame.
In my eyes too much to grasp and put together - a selection is needed. Personally I would have chosen to cut either the top row of rounds on the wall, or the bottom reflections.
Congratulation, Goran, with the POTW.

I tried a crop of the top row and the bottom reflections along the lines that Anders suggested, and while it makes the composition "calmer," it takes some of the tension out that makes the picture successful and exceptional, IMHO. With the cuts, it's more another 'nice' image.

I think the 'unease' of the image is part of its strength.

It's a very cool photo, one that goes along amazingly well with this week's WEEKLY DISCUSSION photo. It's a photo I can and want to thoroughly enjoy as is. Doesn't lead me to want to change a thing. I think the elements harmonize well and, for me, it's so much more than geometry or design, because I feel a distinct rhythm and counterpoint. Perspective and scale play important roles here.

JDM, I agree that the "uneasy" aspects to the photo is being limited by my suggested concentrations on fewer graphical elements? It is all a question of a choice between less optimal frames, IMO.

The wall, the walker, and the umbrella are one thing . . ., but the reflections are quite another. Kudos to Goran.

It works on so many levels. It is quite a clever image.

The bottom window reflections "bookends" the photo so your eyes stay focused on the man and door. BW keeps your eyes focused on form and structure. Interesting photo well composed.

I like it, a good composition, I agree with Alan , the door is an " answer" to the walking man.

Everyone seems to think this image is special...but I don't. Not sure what the big deal is. It is absolutely fine technically (it's sharp and has good/the right amount of contrast, rule of thirds composition etc). But I don't see any more than that. Perhaps I am not intelligent enough to understand why this shot "works on so many levels". Nor do I understand the title. The shot is "OK". I guess I am damning with faint praise.

You might be more right than wrong, Robin.