This photograph is called Wandering Violinist, Abony, Hungary, taken by André Kertész in 1921. In this picture, there is a young child, a boy, and a man playing the violin. All three are staring in opposite directions, and it makes you wonder what they’re looking it. What drew me in was my curiosity in how these people are related. Are they a family? Are they strangers? The boy and the man seem to have some relationship with each other since they’re standing close together, but the child seems to blend in with the background.

The picture seems to be taken while they were all walking and while the man was playing the violin. The rule of thirds was used, with the boy and the man on one line vertically and the child on the other line vertically. Another use of lines is the curving tire streaks on the dirt road from a vehicle, maybe from something like a car. The boy’s and man’s foot is aligned with one of the tire marks. Other lines include the fence in the background. The man’s head is aligned with the top of the fence, and the boys head seems to be aligned with the line where the house in the background connects with the ground. There is a lot of empty space; there is clearly a foreground and background.

For my picture for snapshot day, I’ll be incorporating the different rules that we learned. I’ll apply the rule of thirds by shifting my camera in relation to the subject that I’m trying to capture. I’ll imagine aligning the image to the gridlines, vertically and horizontally or even diagonally. I’ll also incorporate techniques from the reading – where the angle of the camera causes different perspectives.