A long row of iron posts separate traffic from pedestrians who walk the bricks of this avenue. I use the full zoom reach of 420mm to compress that row of posts, making it seem as if each post was standing up against each other. Actually, the posts are spaced at least six to eight feet apart (you can see another photo of them showing this spacing by clicking on the thumbnail at the bottom. ) I wanted this image to contrast the silhouetted man in the wide brimmed hat to the posts stacked before him on one side, and to the silhouetted traffic jam arrayed before him on the other. The telephoto perspective collapses distance and merges foreground, middle ground and background together, pushing the man and the objects before him much closer together than they would appear to the eye.