a great capture. All the different people and races, and the great DOF. It is a photo that deserves more than what it recieved but in these bridge challenges, the non physical structures didnt fare to well. This shot belongs in a newspaper or magazine.
Good stuff, and a clever selection, I would think. Your primary subject is distinct, although the shot meets few of the 'rules'. The downside, a little for me, though i think more perhaps for the site in general, is that it relies on your title so much - but I appreciate the difficulty of going outside the immediately obvious in these challenges. Nicely done.
Nice idea and I like the girl in the white hat.
But, that white sky glares and I really don't see that tilting the camera helps at all. Crop the sky off and straighten up the image and it's worth far more points.