Photography- Photographer Peter Lane
Where the best view is the one you don’t see
Tourists crowd the railing,
cameras aimed at the famous skyline.
The bench points the other direction—
toward nothing postcard-worthy.
Just a wall with peeling paint,
a single tree,
the backs of people looking elsewhere.
Someone sits here.
An old man with a newspaper.
A woman tying her shoe.
A child counting pigeons.
The bench knows something the viewpoint doesn’t:
sometimes the best thing to watch
is people watching.