Hudson moment

 

Fujifilm TX-1 / Super-EBC Fujinon 45/4 / Ultrafine Xtreme 400 / Epson V550

"Hudson moment" describes, well, a moment featuring someone spending time by the eponymous river.  I've used this image as an example of heavily "weighted" compositions leveraging the panoramic format on a few occasions, as well as in a small series on moments of solitude amidst the big and bustling city.

The image is dominated by three important lines.  The top of the safety rail (which lines up with the horizon) rides the boundary of the lower third, while the lampposts establish a strong frame-within-a-frame between them.  With a largely-symmetrical composition, the difference in visual "weight" on the right side (between both distribution of the New Jersey skyline and the subject) pulls the viewer in that direction.

 Starting with the sitting person, the railing guides attention over to the other lamppost (particularly if the viewer is checking for lateral symmetry), at which point the negative space between it and the central skyscraper essentially creates a visual "skip" to the background.

Given more time, the expectation is that the descending line of the building rooftops brings us back to the subject, essentially creating an internal triangle between the lampposts.

 I'm reasonably confident about the order of attention here, but one alternative I can see is 3 -> 1 -> 2 [...], with the roughly-centered skyscraper (I really should know this building's name, but I don't) being the initial landing spot, after which we slide down the skyline and down to "discover" the subject.

Combining symmetry with asymmetry makes the latter stand out all the more, and while this image offers some degree of counterweighting (due to the symmetrical benches, railing, and lamppost structure), the heavy lean to the right creates a directional element to the image that eventually skews attention to the right.

You could certainly argue this is an urban landscape of sorts, making this one of relatively few images I've taken that feature a "vista" in really any form.