Assignment: Composition 2

"Menage" denoting three is the typical meaning and in usually in a sexual context. This caught my eye in Central Park on an idyllic spring day as the opportunity to isolate these elements, was my foto fortune. 2 people intertwined and a third behind them who unbeknownst to any of them, are now interconnected in one photo in perpetuity. None of it in a sexual context but just another random scene that perhaps no one else saw and will never be repeated exactly as is. One of my greatest inspirations in photography is Cartier-Bresson and in my mind, I can easily categorize this as a "decisive moment".

This title is a bit self serving. I am posting this photo from a day where it was about the exquisite spring light and trees and my eyes were drawn to mostly that. But in a city where it is so very hard sometimes to isolate the elements and to not be distracted by thousands of bits of visual information a second, I managed to capture this while walking down 42nd street heading to an appointment on 5th ave. The woman was sitting on the edge of the NY Public Library wall, as per usual, completely immersed in her phone, whether speaking to someone, reading a text or watching something that delighted her, another "I'll never know" example. It was a truly kismet moment where many elements perfectly aligned for my camera and me for some wry social commentary from a random photo op. I'm not even sure what any…