Here, Roberts used a light touch, to convey an apparently instantaneous impression. He adopted a high-key palette to capture the relentless glare of the Australian noon light and the scorching northerly wind. By cropping the buildings at their edges he suggested the scene continues outside the image – presenting only a segment, a moment in time. He intensified the sense of excited movement by using diagonals that run out of the picture space. Indeed, the apparently casualness of the composition is like that of a snapshot, and could well have been influenced by photography.