The update first: I reprocessed picture #1 in b&w, as I found it’s an ideal candidate. Indeed, I now like it better.

The new picture is from today. When I was about to take the shot, the bikes owner stepped out of the building in the background and looked a bit baffled. I explained to her I was taking a shot of the bike being parked in a no-parking-zone, as I liked the contradictoriness of the situation. She smiled and replied that she wouldn’t even have noticed, hadn’t it been for me. That’s what I was talking about: Things that seem so ordinary we normally wouldn’t even notice them, but that might turn out to have an extraordinary reading for someone.

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