Hi Joel,
This is a really interesting scene. As I look at it I am reminded of some of those classic scenes you see in street protests in the US where all you see is a long, wall-to-wall mass of people. This is all helped by the fact that you are up a slight hill so that you can get that long perspective on the situation.
Now, as great as the location is, I have to question two of the decisions that you made when making this photo.
The first is you decision to have a bright white sky dominating the top half of the image. As I look at it my eyes just keep wandering up there and floating away (our eyes are always attracted to the brightest part of a scene). If I was going to do anything I would start by cropping the image to a square (see below).
Now my second question is, why photograph this guy, and why just get his back?
If you did just want his back then I would have waited for him to turn square onto the scene and then I would have made the image. There would have been a nice symmetry to the photograph then and it would have looked like he was surveying the street.
As an alternative though, I would have waited until there were more faces in the foreground, and preferably a telling moment. Then I would have made the photograph.
One old rule of news photography was never to get backs in a photo. Although I am not a stickler for rules, I do think you would have had a more interesting photo if you had a few faces looking this direction.
Cheers,
Anthony
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