A mono image showing a a line of seven people from behind, leaning on a quayside rail, gazing across a stretch of water, with boats and a distant bank opposite. A man is entering the frame, also looking in the same direction. What they are all looking at isn't apparent.

Every so often, to provide a little break from the task of editing the hundreds of new images that I inevitably take on my travels (in this case, New Jersey and NYC, on a familial visit), I dip into my LightRoom archive of old stuff, and sometimes find something that I’d disregarded at the time, but which has some merit, on closer inspection.

And so it was with this image, taken in September 2010 on a 10MP Fuji S8100FD bridge camera. I’m admin for a local Facebook photography challenge group, and the current theme is “Pictures inspired by a book, a song, a painting or a movie”. This image called to mind the classic Buffalo Springfield song, “For What It’s Worth”, the opening lines of which are:

“There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear…”

Does it adequately illustrate the lyric?