Hmm... I definitely prefer the one you actually entered in the challenge.
Not entirely certain what the point of this photo was... I like the right hand side - the shape of the snow and the way they're lined up manages to make the cars look quite aggressive and ready to race. I suppose the bent sign goes with that. The person just seems to be in the way though. There's no obvious readable expression, I can't think of a symbolic explanation, it just looks like he happened to be in the wrong place when you were taking the picture. If he was smaller and further away, he might add to the picture, but atm he's just disrupting it. The B&W conversion works well enough, although a casual viewer might get the impression that it's there in order to make a bad photo look a bit more artsy, thus turning it into an artsy bad photo.
But do let me know if I'm wrong... :) |