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Terraced Crowd Facing the Stage

Wide daylight photograph of a dense crowd on terraced ground in front of a concrete building with reflective windows, a balcony of onlookers and a large screen

What This Image Shows​

A wide, slightly elevated daylight photograph of the event at full attendance. The crowd, largely young adults and teenagers, banks up the terraced ground on the left and centre, all of them turned toward something off-frame to the right. The concrete building behind carries large glass windows that reflect the crowd back, a second-level balcony with more onlookers on it, and a large digital screen at the right edge. A partial number, "12707," is the only text visible.

Three things in this frame matter to the shot-position question. The reflective glazing means the building face was, in effect, a second camera on the crowd. The occupied second-level balcony is another elevated position in public use. And the uniform direction of every head fixes the orientation of the stage precisely, which is what any angle calculation has to be measured from.

The photograph carries no annotation and no timestamp on its face, so it functions as reference rather than as timed evidence.

For the annotated versions of this same view see The Shot and the Shooter Position, and for the venue write-up see UVU.

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