A Thinking Street Photography Site
This has been done many times before.
I really like this wall.
There’s texture, brick by brick.
The colour is luminous.
The window is dark enough.
I’m a fly on the wall.
Nice door.
There’s no end to the stream of individuals.
All deep in thought.
Conversing with their individual humanity.
Camera: Olympus XA 3
Film: Kodak UltraMax 400
We all need to walk.
I have done this walk so many times now, that some of these images are lodged in my mind.
We all know how our external environments organize our internal state.
In a crowded shopping mall, we’re all a bit tense.
Look at water and we relax.
We all need a depository of homely images in our mind.
So we feel at home even outside of home.
There’s a story of a family here waiting to be told.
Just a little narrative.
A little space.
A scattering of things telling us who we are.
Just a little window to the world. A little insight.
A safe harbor.
And we’re home.
This is one of those grungy images that jumped out at me. I was on a double-decker bus and he was on an adjacent seat, looking out. I like the urbane, dreamy and defiant attitude. Definitely a Wong Kar-wai Chungking Express moment for me. In fact, the bus went past Chungking Mansions moments before I pulled out my camera.
That Nikon signage was a serendipitous element so crucial to street photography.
