Curator Carl Shubs review: "You have a wonderful photo here, and a great example of street photography.  It has great balance, having the girl on the left creating that balance to the girls on the right and especially to the girl on the far right who stands away from the group.  You’ve used the distance between them to create that balance and to bring the veiwer’s eye back and forth among the girls.  There is another level of balance as the girls on the right and left are each engaged in their own activities, in contrast to the group in the middle who are all looking at and engaging with you.  Also, the girls on the right and left are each engaged in activities different from each other, resulting in three separate centers of action.

You stood in just the right place to have the sign post split the group of girls behind it.  And it does so with an angle that adds another dynamic with the group.
You also did a great job to capture the contrasting tonalities of the top part of the wall and the bottom part, sidewalk, and street, with each of the darker ones having its own layering of tone.  And all of that is in contrast to the bright colors of the girls’ clothing and the red and white sign. In addition, you have the street as foreground, the sidewalk as middle ground, the wall as background, and the girls melding the middle and background together.

Finally, you have the girls well lit in all of that darkness, which adds to the three-dimensionality of the photo.  Not easy to do."