Walking the Bottom

I went down to Shockoe Bottom today to take pictures. It has a mixture of old Richmond architecture restaurants and different people walking around.

I originally thought I would get some grungy shots of graffiti and maybe some other architectural things. When I walked under the over pass I thought it would make a nice shoot with all the lines crisscrossing across the frame. I first composed the shot with the over pass going right through the center of the frame but then I thought that would be too symmetrical so I repositioned myself to get it to run diagonal across the frame. After processing the diagonal shot I looked back at the first one and decided it was a better composition. I had originally thought the viewers eye would follow the over pass right out of the photo but I think there is enough other elements to keep the eye in frame.

The roof is of the 17^th street train station that is where the train tracks are going in the previous two photos. It is a beautiful building but I chooses to shoot the back of it; one because I think it is shot less and because I liked the straight hard angles of the roof against the sky.

This guy is waiting on something. Maybe a bus or maybe on the motivation to get up and walk.