File talk:The Photographer.jpg

What is the direction of the mouvement? Since a silhouette is a projection of a 3D object into a plane, it is impossible to know without further data, either 3D information or circumstancial information. Still, there might be some clues:

1. I suppose that most people handle the cane with their righr hand. If that is the case, then the man was walking towards me. But this is a poor argument. If there were some problem with the left leg then the cane would be needed there.
2. I was quite young when I took this picture and I hardly would dare to shoot the old man walking towards me.
3. The shadow of the "left" foot on the ground is larger when the man is walking away from the camera.

Alvesgaspar 09:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I suppose Man is walking toward camera. See his fingure on stick Pruthvi.Vallabh 13:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

• The 2D image of the finger is compatible with both solutions. - Alvesgaspar 13:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• I think that from the foot on the left of the image, it is fairly clear that he is walking toward the camera. The heel of the shoe is seen behind the toe of it. --Steevven1 13:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

For some time, I thought that this very same foot made clear that he was walking away... The fact that it is almost -or completely- impossible to know is part of the interest of the picture. Berrucomons 15:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I see it now. Wow. Interesting. Perhaps it is impossible to tell. Steevven1 05:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The foot on the right seems to make it very clear that he's walking away. You see his heel coming down. Though I can see the left foot in both directions, I can't make the right foot walking towards me. Atropos 01:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I sent the link of this foto to my friends and they had a long discussion on IRC about it /the log has 12,2 Kb/. 10 men mean from fotograf, 4 toward fotograf.

One of them mad a detail of the image: [1]. --Nolanus ✉ (C | E) 21:08, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I just want to mention that this is a totally awesome photograph. It just seems very artistic. Atropos 00:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I think it's relatively easy to see the back of his hair, the direction of his right foot, and his finger on the spine of the cane, all indicating he is walking away from the camera.

The Photographer image made brighter to reveal further details. Discernible shoe platforms under the left shoe, absence of any facial features in addition to a right shoe with frontal part slightly above the rear part when it is likely fully pressed to the ground all indicate that the man is walking away from the camera.