Image Deconstruction

La Boca Rooftop. Buenos Aires, Argentina. December, 2005
Canon 5D with 24-105mm f/4L IS lens @ ISO 400
I do photography for several reasons. One of the strongest is that it helps me pay close attention and be more intensely involved in the world around me. Another is that it allows me (indeed affords me the opportunity) to travel the world and experience what it has to offer. A third, and by no means lesser motivation, is that I get to share my manner of seeing the world with others through my photographs.
Recently there was an item in the newspaper about how one of the large New York museums was holding art analysis sessions for detectives of the NYPD. The concept was that by analyzing paintings (especially those from the Renaissance) the powers of observation that forensic investigators need could be honed – the premise being that analyzing art was not that dissimilar to crime scene investigation.
With these as background, I thought that it would be interesting to look at jus...