Framing the image - balance: Image 5

I also performed the weighing scale exercise on the two photographs that I submitted for the Guildford Photosoc Mounted Print competition No 4 (see earlier post). These two images contained more complex visual elements.
Image 5: Footbridge, Paris

In this image, there are converging lines leading to the two distant figures about to descend the stairs. The structure of the footbridge forms an angular block on the right hand side and a Z-shape structure stretching from bottom left to the centre and back to the upper left hand side.
What attracted me to framing the image from this point was the mirror image of the shape of the blue sky and the similar shape of the descending staircase. This provides a relatively high degree of symmetry in a vertical plane of the two most prominent visual elements of the image.
Looking at the horizontal "weighing scale", there is, I feel, a reasonable balance around the point of convergence at the top of the stairs between:-
- the structure on the right hand side of the picture and the two figures which are just to the right side of the point of convergence.
- the Z-shaped structure to the left of the point of convergence.
This image was awarded a score of 8 out of 10 by the judge, in an open competition for images of all sorts. I feel that the score reflected the fact that the subject of the image was lacking in interest, even though I felt the representation of the subject was reasonably OK.