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People pointing, indicating, demonstrating, signaling, and showing…. Pictures of people pointing often don’t show the object being pointed at; it’s out of the picture. But we can guess roughly what it might be…. Sometimes.

This photograph is not only a study of a guide guiding and tourists touring, but also a frozen moment to kindle our curiosity about “What could it be?”

The elderly gazers’ expressions, the younger guide’s turned head and outstretched arm, assisted by the angled crutch, pull attention out of the left side of the picture, and provoke guessing, speculation, and conjecture about the out-of-picture object that the tourists are being told is important.

In this case, a car factory. Surprise?

Canon 40D, 70-200mm. 1/125 sec. 080826 Wolfsburg

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