Rosie Kosinski is perhaps our youngest member, a student at Davidson College. But like so many other members, she is not an Ashe County native and has traveled the world extensively. The photo below is our first submitted from Israel, more specifically the Palestinian section in the city of Jerusalem.

Rosie Kosinski - Street Vendor in Old Jerusalem

It’s easy to see what first attracted her eye-the street vendor with his table of precariously stacked sesame rolls. The first instinct must have been to hone in on this central subject, taking up the entire frame. But creativity seldom follows the obvious route. Instead she increased the field of view to include the passageway to the left and to add the Palestinian students with their backpacks. It’s this decision that made an interesting scene much more so, elevating the final result into a shot that grabs one’s attention.

This photo is also one that could be analyzed from many different angles-the row of darker stones leading to the vendor, the diagonal lighter stones pointing to the passageway, the textured wall behind the vendor, the posters dividing the picture into thirds, the glance back by one of the students or the averted eyes of the vendor. However it’s all of these working together that tell the story and make the image a pleasure to view.