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This image tells me that the father taking the picture knows something about photography.  The first thing I notice is that he is down at eye level with the subject.  Most snap shooters would take their picture standing up looking down on the child.  He has placed the child in an unusual but graphic rich environment.  And the photograph is being taken while the subject in not looking into the camera. 

The composition of this image uses the patterns of the repeating horizontal lines of the tracks as the unifying theme.  This along with the camera pointing at the child unifies the two subjects into an unbreakable bond.  I see the photo-artist has used a computer filter to alter the image.  The assumption I make is that this was done to add more interest.  In this case the filter may not have been necessary, but not bad either.

Perhaps the photo-artist would consider a couple alterations to this image.  The shadows of the trees at the top of the frame add a micro amount of distracting information to this very pure image.  In the foreground there is a white crack in the asphalt entering the frame.  These both could be removed by cropping or cloning on the computer. As always the photographer is the one that must decide what he wants in the final composition.

By the way, from the information in this photo I think it was taken in the Los Angeles Griffith Park Travel Town section.

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