A Thinking Street Photography Site
I’m still walking around…
The streets are exhibitions waiting to speak.
What would the stall say?
What’s he thinking about?
We’re all concealed by what we buy and sell.
We all buy and sell.
We’re all waiting.
Until it’s all meat…
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
I’ve set a challenge for myself – to do tourism slightly differently.
It’s a way of not spending money.
Go to touristy sites and look at tourists.
Turn that obligatory landmark photo into a street photograph.
And then suddenly, everyday life becomes intriguing.
Quiet moments are especially beautiful.
You could still be a tourist in the Tube.
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Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2
There’s a blindness to the streets we need to learn to see.
There’s the individual, and there’s society.
The street looks back.
We negotiate the streets.
We work the streets.
We refresh the streets.
The street is at rest.
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Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Took this from a London Overground station.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
The Hatman at Old Spitafields Market.
The Beltman.
Wonderful-looking shop.
Nice architecture.
What’s there not to like? The area is walking distance from Brick Lane, has a business district, is where the Spitalfields Market is located.
The shop, again.
Nice building façade.
Another time, another life – I would choose to live in the area.
Nice colours too.
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Camera: Canon 600D
Lens: Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM
Again, in London.
The Hong Kong MTR in London.
Ooh.
Aah.
Kowloon is in London.
Heroic-looking man. There’re 5 people here but the eyes are drawn to a specific person.
The folks at Hamleys.
Along Oxford Street.
Waiting man.
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Camera: Canon 600D
Lens: Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM
I was at Central with about an hour to kill before a lunch meeting.
Coincidentally, of course, I had my Canon 600D with a 40mm / f 2.8 STM lens.
I really like the above, with its three partitions.
I thought I’d try my hand at street photography from a distance.
Street photography with an urban landscape component.
I walked up and down the Central Escalators for a bit.
I feel I have more time to think about the background.
The background is the foreground.
Another urban landscape-ish skyline shot.
Lots of people are hard at work in the sun.
That’s a really big camera.
Working hard.
Thanks for reading!
Camera: Canon 600D
Lens: Canon 40mm F 2.8 STM
Today, we look at the act of pushing.
All that work, all day, must mean something.
This is us.
We sort things out.
We go from place to place.
From place to place it must mean something.
The pull of desire.
All that pushing…
Camera: Leica M6
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Stand at a corner and look confused.
Fumble with my camera long enough and someone will walk past.
I’ll look a bit lost and confused and frown at my camera.
I wasn’t holding the camera to my eye.
Another favourite activity: aim at the window.
And let people get in my way.
I’ve come to appreciate photographs that look like they were taken accidentally.
Street photography is an art that requires artlessness.
Camera: Leica M6
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC
Film: Kodak BW400CN
We do our own thing.
We do it easily – this art of immersion within ourselves.
We close down.
Read ourselves.
And this makes a life.
Camera: Leica M6
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC
Film: Kodak BW400CN
Hong Kong Lucida 
