The locksmith's little boy

[thetraveler]

in Siem Reap, Cambodia

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Dave Humphries]

If mine Lew, I'd have cropped off the right hand side to exclude the paraphernalia behind his back, which rather atracts my attention from him.

I feel that also makes a stronger composition of the main subject, but YMMV.

Dave

[thetraveler]

Dave,

I read an interesting discussion about why poets are so hard on others' work and so protective of their own. There's not much space in poetry for change because it is so hemmed in as it is by meter and rhyme so when a poet works really hard at something the verse and his opinion becomes reified and any suggested change seems almost a violation.

So when I pick an edit I sometimes become so invested in it that any change becomes 'wrong', it doesn't fit and no longer is my vision.

So, it's not that your suggestion isn't a good idea but that I wanted to keep that stuff in to build a bit more of a suggested environment - even at the cost of a cleaner portrait and I am just wedded to that idea and thus the crop.

Thanks for looking, thanks for speaking out.

Lew

[Sergio M.]

Lew, a well captured environmental portrait. I do think the wares help to add context.

Sergio