Tip: Let your picture flow

Look at this picture and why does it work for something that is so plain and boring?

Things to notice. I did not put that sign in the middle of the picture, I put it in the bottom left third of the picture so that your eye first see's this sign then draws you to move your eyes toward the plywood.  So your eyes are moving across a photograph.  That is how you can make your picture flow.  Not mention that this is actually funny!  See more of my Heart of San Francisco pics I took this past year.