Unless prevented by circumstances, a photographer should take good care of not only all elements across the screen but also their interrelationship before pressing the shutter release all the way down. The balance and echo are two prominent considerations in respect of interrelationship.
In general, human eyes prefer balanced images while the room for viewers' imagination can be expanded by any echo in an image, together making yoru images more intriguing and sometimes philosophical.
Briefly put, the image here achieves a balance by:
1) bisecting the image vertically (that's why sometimes you've to turn on the gridlines)
2) distributing the weights of the man with the wooden cart and the road markings by not putting them on the same axis (I waited until the man moved up to the upper right position)
The image also hopefully achieves an echo by:
3) juxtaposing the SLOW marking and the man moving slowing with the wooden cart on, paradoxically, the fast lane.
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