Backlit

If you've been a photographer for a while, you know the scenario. I turned and the car was

just coming around the corner. I could see the image in my mind, I had only a few seconds to

get my act together. It just so happened that my settings were close enough to capture the

image you see. An educated guess, experience and luck all came together on a hot, humid

night in a back street in Guangzhou, China.

How about cropping out the streetlamp and maybe a bit off the bottom

don't touch it.

I'm with you, Lenora. I like the long shadows in the foreground and the source of the light in the background as well as the buildings showing the viewer what the street actually looked like. Certainly cropping everything but the silhouette is another option but not the one I chose for this particular image. That would make it another image completely. In addition, I tend to rarely crop my images. I would say 99% of my images are what I see in the viewfinder. If I don't see it through the lens, I usually don't take the photograph. Thanks so much for you comment.