I’d love to see this shot run as a double-page spread one day. At a large size it’s chock-full of detail and nearly entirely monochromatic except for the tiny red-coated figure in the lower left. Not only does he give a little splash of color, but he makes it apparent just how large the cathedral in Regensburg, Germany, really is. Often with something huge like this the impulse is to get it all in frame, but that can actually make it look quite small in the final image. Cropping in and using just a portion of the church so that it bleeds off on all sides emphasizes that it’s so big it won’t even fit in the shot. Even so, without that lone figure in the corner the effect would not be nearly as strong. (And thank you, sir, for wearing your red coat that day!)
