He was saying goodbye.

Hi,

I'm sorry to ask but... what is the subject...?

I purpose this crop, using trees as a frame let a more important place to the guy at the window...

what's your opinion..?

I love this place. It's beautiful and this picture makes me want to go there. I don't like the cropped picture. I don't like the man in the picture either. I just think this place is so pretty with the trees. Great building!

Sorry, Julien, but I think your crop destroys or at least loses much of what made this photo appeal to me. The man in the window is only a side note, the subject is the aesthetically pleasing relationship between light and shadow, foreground and background, and the way that the trees and bushes seem to hold the viewer in a hidden shelter of safety from which to look out upon the brightness of the building.

The cream yellow and blue of the building work well with the greens of the foliage, and the man in the window is only a secondary point of interest...something upon which your mind can rest after grazing across the other surfaces.