A supplement to Gateway's "Every Picture Tells a Story". The picture in question is the first one, named "nap". The others are those leading up to it. Here's the story:

This picture was taken at the Pompidou Center (the big modern art museum in Paris). The Pompidou Center has all of it's insides hanging on the outside....air ducts, stairwells, etc. This was taken from a catwalk on the 5th or 6th level, looking down at the plaza below. As you can see, the geometric patterns in the plaza paving stones were great. And sprinkled across the plaza were people engaged in all sorts of activites....reading, eating, napping. I probably took a couple dozen images here of various compositions of one or more groups of people. I think this one worked the best, with the single person in red strategically placed in the frame, and with the diagonal line of the drainage grate. I sometimes have a tendency to zoom in on subjects, but in this case, the wider, spare, minimilast view seemed to work. "Nap" was cropped from image 5694, to make the composition simpler.