I had to go into town today to do some work at the university and didn't miss the opportunity to take my camera. This image is of the newly paved, and now pedestrian only, Avenida de la Constitución in the centre of Seville.

I really like this image because it tells me alot about Seville (business men, eldely people, scooters, lottery ticket sellers, Christmas lights on lamp posts etc), because it's well balanced wih plenty to look at but particularly because I know that it was crafted and not just snapped.

How was it crafted? I'm glad you asked :-) Firstly, and most basically, it was composed with the buildings as they are in the frame. This took all of a couple of seconds but was thought through. Secondly I fine tuned the composition by moving a little here, a little there, to place the lamps in the top left exactly in the gap between the buildings.

Lastly it was a matter of getting the right people in the frame. This is hard because you have to maintain the precise compostition (a tripod would have been perfect) while watching people walk in and out of the frame. As far as I'm concerned this image is made by the man walking into the frame on the left. He's walking into the image with such energy that he pulls me into the picture with him.

I took this very Spanish image today too: