Love the almost-eye-contact from many of these people. Really nice to explore.
Coming back for another look - you have captured humanity's seriousness, silliness, and ironies. The ladder remains an odd bit which is just one of the things to wonder in this great composition. The 2-half-shirt, the ORIGINAL shirt, the signage, the mere crowdedness and meaninglessness of it all. Wonderful. Bumping to 9.
Good capture of loneliness in the middle of a crowd.
The image tells to much though in my opinion - a bit of cropping from the left side, the entire figure with the backpack or half of it would make sense to me.
one bump up
One can be alone in the crowd was my first thought when I saw this shot. Interesting how people are hardly phased by her presence in this busy shopping center even though she is standing atop a step ladder. It is a moment that makes me wonder why she is taking a selfie or filming; given that she carried a ladder with her it might be an assignment. While the people around her are not stopping I stop to wonder why she is there and what her story is.