Graffiti, at least interesting and well done graffiti are great to find for making portraits. I don't mind 'busy' backgrounds. I think they can add to a photograph as you search to discover the subjects within the somewhat chaotic visual design. Its active and as a viewer we have to be active ourselves in looking at it. Sometimes we need to be jolted awake in looking at the billions of the same photographs being made by millions of people(just think about how many pictures you've seen of two friends cheek to cheek with one arm extended disappear up behind the edge of the frame--the arm that is holding the digital point and shoot camera or cell phone out to snap the shot). I like this location under a bridge in Meadville, its got good graffiti and its fun to take a well dressed family to in order to make their portrait. Thanks to the Hyatts for indulging me, I hope hey like the photographs. SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer