An Old Man

Hello!

I had no intentions of making a post today, but I just stumbled across this photo and thought it may be of some interest - so here it goes. Whenever I am in Vienna I have to go to my favourite coffeehouse at least once. I believe it was two Springs ago (2011) I just happened to go in one morning with my camera. The people at this coffeehouse (which I will keep anonymous) vary in an extraudinary sense of the word. For example, the waiter is a splitting image of Sigmund Freud (i.e. same glasses, same beard etc.). Various locals come in from time to time who are well known: authors, painters, ballet dancers - you get the picture. Most are just normal locals, both young and old, some are just tourists, others use the coffehouse as simple meeting place.

For those of you who are not familiar with Viennese coffeehouses, you can literally spend the whole day in a coffeehouse. You order a coffee and a strudel, pick up a newspaper and just sit and eat for as long as you want. 

What I have noticed is the amount of mystery that surrounds a simple photo. You get a simple, straight up photo and you analyse it. You analyse the subject of the photo and develop somewhat of a story behind it. I thought I will give it a go...

The photo I called 'An Old Man'. I wanted people to ask questions about the subject, such as: What is he doing? Who is he with? What is he looking at? Is he listening or just daydreaming? I purposefully croped the photo in order to raise these question. The photo may not be worth a thousand words, yet for some reason it did intrigue me.

Anyway, here is the photo:

Enjoy!