A Quiescent Moment

(Camera: Ricoh GX200)

The desolate road, the empty wooden carts, the waiting man and the dim yellowish light from the street lamps combined to give a dark, gloomy and philosophical quality to the scene.  To faithfully render such a quiescent moment was the main concern of this shot.
 

The lowdown on the technique: a quick tweak to correct the camera's white balance to bias towards bluish green, thanks to the most intuitive WB Correction function probably found only in Ricoh cameras, adding a ghostly tint to the final image.  The trick to highlight the centre subject – the man – and blur the peripheral ones was achieved by pushing the camera forward (just) a bit while fully pressing down the shutter release.  The effect is to urge viewers to focus on the main subject; hence to think more intensely on his body gesture of loneliness.

Finally, the 16:9 format was chosen to crop out a few irrelevant spots of lights at the upper-left corner, making the image emotionally more intense.