Ahhhh good times at the Bay to Breakers :)

Do they do everything together?

John: I was wondering how you figured it was at the bay to breakers, then I clicked your link and understood! Funny coincidence.

Andrew/Jean-Marc: perfect strangers dressed for the bay to breakers race in San Francisco.

woops, I just uploaded this to the People topic, without realizing I had uploaded this to another topic a long time ago....

Interesting situation.

I really like your photo Martin, it's very strong, and perfect for this topic. It's very really clever of you to have waited for the man to look towards the beach.

Thanks Manuel. Sorry for the long delay in responding. I've been dealing with family issues.

The crumbs really bother me I'm afraid... :-(

Good, photos are intended to bother us, I think. If the bothering succeeds, then it's good. If it's unintentional and/or fails to work, then it's bad. I think this photo is intentionally off-putting and works -- not as a pretty portrait but as a picture of a real person who plays tennis and eats cookies and looks both athletic and slightly childish/nerdy at the same time. (I'm not saying he really IS that way, but who isn't...and the purpose of this portrait isn't to portray anyone's ideal image of the man but an image that the artist wants to show.)

Thanks for the comments everyone. This was at the annual Bay to Breakers Race here in San Francisco. I was in the middle of the race taking random photos of people as they walked by and I was able to capture this guy. If you're familiar with this race, it's similar to say...Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Anyway his "costume" was a tennis player and people in costumes love to have their photos taken. I must have photographed him while he was eating a cookie or something.

Oh, what a coincidence, another tennis player at the bay to breakers, it seems we posted these at about the same time but for a different topic!

Great minds think alike! Hahah..love your work btw.

looks cool. i bet this would look cool printed extra large.

awesome shot and colour, i love the perspective you chose!

Really great perspective that works well with the bold coloring.:)

The colors are nice. I find the shadow on the ground distracting. I would like to see this with the right edge cropped - so you don't see the other wall of the building at all - that wall makes the photo seem somehow not straight to me. The subject is interesting, nice find!

I second Sher on the crop, I think this would have had a stronger impact without seeing the right edge and also without seeing this little yellow thing on the far left. Other than that, this is nicely seen and your intentions were right on in my opinion.