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Jan 12, 2016 00:20:33   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
If I see something interesting in the street, I hanker to take its picture.

Empty Liquor Bottle on Sidewalk, Ensenada
Empty Liquor Bottle on Sidewalk, Ensenada...

Casino Restaurant Seating
Casino Restaurant Seating...

Musicians Aboard USS Iowa
Musicians Aboard USS Iowa...

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Jan 12, 2016 17:38:47   #
kruchoski Loc: Albuquerque, NM
 
anotherview wrote:
If I see something interesting in the street, I hanker to take its picture.

I'm giggling about the empty liquor bottle. Reminds me of the "abandoned bra" I spied on a downtown street in Albuquerque. I snapped plenty of pics, from various perspectives & distances. Bystanders must have wondered what kind of perv I am.

I confess I tire of the textbook lessons about what constitutes real street photography. As I said in another post, I try to "take it all in" while not losing sight of the small details, especially serendipitous & whimsical subjects.

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Jan 12, 2016 18:08:49   #
Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska
 
kruchoski wrote:
As I said in another post, I try to "take it all in" while not losing sight of the small details, especially serendipitous & whimsical subjects.

Ain't that just the very spice of life! Exactly what Street really is about.

"You could walk 5th Avenue all day, and it will never be the
same. ... You get a different, ehmm, selection of ahh, the
animal life in that, in that canyon."
Joel Meyerowitz

That statement was made in 2012. But it is a mild bit of acknowledgment of what his partner on those trips he made walking around on 5th Avenue all day, Garry Winogrand, had been saying decades earlier.

"There's no such thing as street photography and even if there
were, it isn't what I do...I photograph animals. That's it! If
you want to do a history of zoo photography, I'll participate."
Garry Winogrand (Only slightly tongue in cheek.)

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Jan 12, 2016 18:16:55   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
Me, too: "I tire of the textbook lessons . . . ." My eye and my gut feeling tell me what to photograph in the street.

Glad my snapshot of the liquor bottle amused you.
kruchoski wrote:
I'm giggling about the empty liquor bottle. Reminds me of the "abandoned bra" I spied on a downtown street in Albuquerque. I snapped plenty of pics, from various perspectives & distances. Bystanders must have wondered what kind of perv I am.

I confess I tire of the textbook lessons about what constitutes real street photography. As I said in another post, I try to "take it all in" while not losing sight of the small details, especially serendipitous & whimsical subjects.
I'm giggling about the empty liquor bottle. Remind... (show quote)

Giant Mexican Flag, Ensenada
Giant Mexican Flag, Ensenada...

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Jan 12, 2016 18:30:08   #
Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska
 
The Giant Mexican Flag picture is really interesting.

If you wanted a classic Travel picture or a Post Card picture it would be a tedious task to remove all those wires. And the cleaned up picture would grace a travelogue very nicely.

But it wouldn't show life as it really is. The Street version is a slice of life as we live it, tangled in the wires that make modern living both livable and modern. What a metaphor...

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Jan 12, 2016 18:43:07   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
Thank you for your critique of my picture of the flag.

As to editing, yes, I often do minor editing of my work, but as here, I simply tried to reproduce the scene as I saw it. The overhead wires actually seem like a web holding the picture together.
Apaflo wrote:
The Giant Mexican Flag picture is really interesting.

If you wanted a classic Travel picture or a Post Card picture it would be a tedious task to remove all those wires. And the cleaned up picture would grace a travelogue very nicely.

But it wouldn't show life as it really is. The Street version is a slice of life as we live it, tangled in the wires that make modern living both livable and modern. What a metaphor...

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