About the Image(s)

It was hot, hazy and humid on the day I visited the Great Wall of China. Not good light for IR photography. However, inside a tower I discovered this child fixed on her iPhone sweating but oblivious to the heat. For puzzling reasons, people in the collectivistic socialistic culture of China are even more obsessed with their smart phones than those in the West. I liked how the light singled out the child and
how IR made her appear as a marbled figurine. To render the final image, I cropped it moving the subject to the lower-left quarter, added space below her shoes, highlighted her image to contrast it against the barren walls and curiously ugly graffiti inside the tower, then finally, reduced noise with Topas AI. Camera stats: 1/250, 18mm, f/3.5, ISO=320.