Premium Photo Competition 2014 Q1 : Entry Number 177

This image immediately caught our interest. It has beautiful movement and is in balance. The colors of the runner separates him from the surroundings.

I am honored to have received this mark of excellence for this photo! Thank you to the judges! The image was taken in December 2013 in Havana, Cuba. My girlfriend and I had managed to convince our wonderful guide to show us some of the "real" havana rather than the same old tourist spots he would normally take his clients to see. We ended up walking along a street in a residential area alive with children and young people playing and hanging out in the streets. At some point this boy bolted from around a corner, screaming and running towards me as he was rejoining his group of friends . I had just enough time to raise my camera and grab this shot which really captures the young man's joyful energy. It was taken using a Nikon D7000 with a 24-70mm f2.8 lens. Post-processing was limited to slight cropping as well as exposure and contrast adjustments.