alone at the top
It’s often the smallest things that make the biggest difference.
Perhaps you’ve seen the phrase on one of those motivational posters. A tiny kitten caresses the ear of a giant dog, or an insect pollinates a flower, and then those words are written in a flimsy font.
Although there are obviously no kittens or insects here, I feel it applies. It is the smallest things that make the biggest difference in this picture.
Would the photographer have shot it if the central figure was wearing a boring black parka?
Maybe.
If that face was not so kabuki white would I have remembered it?
Perhaps.
But it is the absolutely smallest things; the dark rimmed glasses and the slit of an open mouth, those details make the biggest difference, they give uncanny power to a solitary figure, alone at the top.
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