The photo was taken in London during the New Year's day parade. The theme of participation is apparent in this photo through the subjects faces and personality. Rather than photograph the actual parade, I found the people who were standing together looking at the parade far more interesting. Each one of them came out to the parade for their own personal reasons: boredom, curiosity, fascination, or perhaps even a coincidence. The one thing though that all of them had in common was that they were there together celebrating the passing of another year and the start of a fresh one.