French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography "After St. Lazare Station".

I like this picture because as a capture represent those moments that determine other ones. It means, represent decisions to me, to the small changes that will be such ephemeral at its happening, nevertheless, it will have consequences.  

A kind of cause and effect is this picture. The decision was to jump from the ladder to the water, not jump the puddle to not get wet. Well now, this is the main idea, but it can be a little more specific in this interpretation because the shoe of the man is not touching the water in the picture, in fact, this last action has not being affected for anything related to the jump “next to fall”. Then is exactly the decision that has been pictured, the time or the decisive instant has been called at the technique the photographer has used according to my inquiries. This picture is a fundamental part of the human being, and on it shows what difference us from the animals, the capacity of reason in base to the decision.  Nevertheless, it’s also what we share with the animal, the surviving, because in instead of stay trap on the ladder surrounded of water everywhere, he rather to jump. 

For the other hand, once my approach leave the central individual, a way of reading of the photographic picture, I find myself with the general composition where powerfully it finds the water reflection. This last action finely do the scene lose the path, just before to realize where every thing or object repeat. Besides this, there are not major distractive elements and this for my opinion justify my interpretation, the picture is in pure science the capture of a moment to a common eyes and recollections is imperceptible.