I think this is my favorite picture of yours, and I think it's (mostly) because of your composition but I can't really tell because it's too damn big to fit on my monitor!(posted 8694 days ago)I have two questions though... are you one of those poor guys who think they are forbidden to crop, a slave to the all seeing black line? I'd loose the fraction at top and right that leave unimportant little light spots whispering in my (visual) ear. while the overall tonal range is exquisite, I burn his little white shoe to a shade darker than his face and have a classic image when done. His expression is perfect, oblivious to you, but quite present in the moment. A really great shot, the shovel angle and the foreshadowing presence of his own possible future (played by the faceless adulthood looming at the right) and the implication of future duties (woodpile) combine to be an image full of the symbolism of a rural working life, close to the earth. Yet it is also a simple picture of a working man's son. Beautiful... t