Direction

The light was magnificent, low evening sun, full of promise.

I knew there where great pictures in the air, I only had to grab them.

Only.

In conditions like that I become very focussed, single minded and unsocial.

There are pictures to be found, never mind the rest of the world.

While climbing the escalator, I saw these women coming down, I had no time to set anything, I just raised the camera and clicked.

Mind you, this is a Leica M6, no Auto-anything as we know it today (but a lot of automation in it's days LOL). I always pre-set my exposure to a setting that more-or-less suits the environment I am in, and sometimes a zone-focussing distance, but not this time. You can see that the girl in the center is out of focus, the focus seems to be set to a greater distance, look at the person in the back. Probably ∞ .

But all that technical bla is completely irrelevant here.

See & Shoot, think later.

I love this picture, it is a direction of style I would like to go to.

For me, this invites you as a viewer to make up your own story, there is a whole book in here if you want. At the same time it remains visually attractive, there is composition, light, contrast, everything.

And a lot of mystery.

This is one of those photographs that works best without any comment or subtitle.

On a technical side, I think that the lens, my Biogon, performed outstanding, look at the lack of flare form the sun in the centre. Zeiss T* indeed.

It is completely irrelevant, but at the same time makes the picture.
It matters, but at the same time it does not.

Nice controversy.