‘If you know Barcelona, you’ll know this place’: Olivier Lei’s best phone picture French photographer Olivier Lei, based in Barcelona, was exploring the city and stopped at a bar to scout a location. Noticing the composition of his new loafers, red socks, and the bar’s chairs and greenery, he captured an intriguing photo. Lei now wears the loafers frequently and considers this quiet day of observation to have yielded a particularly good shot.

• French photographer Olivier Lei, based in Barcelona, was exploring the city.
• He stopped at a bar to scout a location for a future photo.
• Lei was wearing new, inexpensive black loafers and noticed the composition of his red socks matching the bar stools.
• He captured a photo of the scene, rotating it for a more intriguing perspective.
• Lei now wears the loafers regularly and considers the photo a successful outcome of a quiet observational day.