After a long extenuating day shooting street photography in Paris (France), I went back to my Airbnb in Montmartre. I wasn't really satisfied with what I shot and I was just about to call it a day when on my terrace I saw this view.
An old lady was silently eating her dinner by herself, while on the (kinda dangerous) streets of Montmartre business was going on as usual in between sketchy motels, sex shops, and burlesque shows.

In Adobe Lightroom I enhanced the colors that were already present in the scene: the red of the streets, the blue of the building, and the yellow of the lady's interior.

The shot for me has two souls that me think about two different artists: Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper.
Hitchcock because of his renowned film "Rear window", where the main character, forced in the house, spies everything that goes on around his apartment.
The stillness of the shot makes me think of Hopper: all the people that he portrays in his paintings are still, petrified, always waiting for something but unable to move.


This whole photographic experience really made me realize that sometimes your best picture of the year can be shot on your terrace.