Dear Padre, I meant no disrespect. I did not use cropping or any other technique that you mention. Not because I do not know how, but because I feel that a picture like this does not need that to portray real life. How can you take a snapshot like this in total control of it, and say this is my message? What about the subject? Is not their message what I am trying to capture? I do not use my "subjects" as wax models to represent what I mght have to say. I capture them in their ****, and they give whatever message they emit. If it is not profound or techncal then so be it. I do not complain or tell them that they have bad light or are posing poorly. can I tell the sun or the moon to pose in a certain way? Can I criticize them for poor lighting or....? My style is no style, in that my "subjects" can be seen as they really are, without the omniescient critisim of traditional photography standards. This is how art began and is how it should be.