A note of which I am pride:
this photo was not cropped, I intended to compose it as it is.
And a trick shared: I shot this photo at 1/3 of sec without tripod! =)
Impossible? Yes and no.
There was a very clean glass in front of the subject and I pressed the camera lens against it completely and firmly.
That created a position which, possibly, was even more stable than the one I would have achieved with a tripod, and in conjunction with the swiveling body of the f707 (a too underrated and very important feature of a camera IMHO) it helped the pcik the composition and made crop unnecessary.
Roger: 'a bit of a nothing..."? Considering how interestingly contrasting is your sentence, I take it as a complement.
This is a very interesting image. Nice and simple and a neet composition. For me, however, I would have liked to have seen a little more seperation between the subject and the background. They almost blend together and take a little away from the graphic design that the composition creates.