Tilted Street Photography: Go out, do some, post results here :)

Apparently they put in a post limit to add link and images to my posts. It's a damn shame I was able to contribute to three threads only to not be able to any more. I only post when I have something to say so 15 posts won't come quickly.

 

Confederate Thanks. OK. I see what's happened. You'd started contributing then they put the postcount thing in, so suddenly you couldn't. It is dang upsetting when dolphins get caught in the tuna-net, and your work is important.

Post your contributions like this:
mysitedotcom/photos/picture 1.jpg
mysitedotcom/photos/picture 2.jpg

I'll convert them to
http://www.mysite.com/photos/picture1.jpg
etc, so they'll show as images, and will post them with
"Pictures by Confederate" at the top.

Best wishes, and sorry you'd gone to the effort of preparing and creating a selection, only to find it unpostable.

 

Spent some time searching and found more, yes!

I moved to this small city in the summer of 1990.
(1200 residents -1 intersection with a traffic-light -7 taverns.)

Soon found out that celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, heartily, was a longstanding tradition.
On that day until sunset, it was legal to take alcoholic beverages outside of the seven
taverns & wander about.

This event was also popular with the area’s motorcycle enthusiasts.
Depending on the weather, there were 4 to 5 hundred motorcyclists
attending from various other cities in Wisconsin. (That day was clear but quite cold. The wind chill was around 15 degrees Farenheit. I can’t even imagine being on a bike when it’s that chilly.)

 

Yaaaaay Thanks, ring ... a day like that is like finding gold and thankyou for sharing this great picture

I'm this moment about to be taken out on a walk by my mate Paul ... doubt that they will be people shots, because it is along a canal. If so, then good. If not, I'll probably open a Places - Landscape/Architecture thread.

He's here now .. and so I am off.

Best wishes

 

Visited Taj Mahal in 2008 - Magnificent place, but it was almost as interesting to watch the other tourists.

Asian tourist in the famous "Holding the Taj by the spear" pose


Waiting for his wife outside the public restrooms

 

Well - that sure was a 'Rushing out of the house' post! "He's here now"
ring .. I'd totally omitted noting how your 'model', knowing you were photogrphing her, looked totally comfortable. Great rapport

Here is on the bus going to where we started the walk


This is Paul holding his umbrella against the sun. I include this only because it fills in some detail of what the day was 'about', ie a walk along a canal!


This is at the walk's destination, waiting for the bus home. The sun is at its lowest and warmest.


Thank you for looking and best wishes

 

Hi Freeload

Thank you

I was looking at your immortally titled second picture, very much enjoying how you'd positioned and exposed to get the repeated pattern into infinity, its sheer enormity anchored by the scale of that man.
I wondered where I had felt that feeling recently, and then suddenly I remembered ... have a look Number 6 of Richard Misrach's work in MixedMedia's 'Photographers we like' thread.
http://www.thetfp.com/threads/photographers-we-like.922/#post-10562

Pyramids ... human.

Lol ... I like your irony where in your first picture, you recorded those tourists who were setting up a shot to turn that principle on its head!

Great pair of opposites

 

Wow - Thank you Zen.
There is something really captivating about your last photo (waiting for the bus) Everything thing leads my eye to the girl texting on her phone.
The light, the others looking in her direction, the church tower, the fence and sidewalk leads me to her. The symmetric excavators arches frames it nicely.
If it was staged, it would be a good planned photograph - as a street photograph it's amazing and deserves the highest praise a photographer will ever receive.
"Wow - you sure must have a nice camera!"

It also reminded me of the ZZ Top song "Waiting for the bus"

 

Hi Freeload

That praise was amazing ... you sure must have a great keyboard!

Seriously, you hit to the core of my intent. As if 'it was staged' was my aim. Look at this:

Adverts for drama, probably to fit web-page banner format, are getting incredibly wide-screen.
Those people waiting for the bus were doing just that.


The Leverage crew are a bit too up front and in my face but 'The Closer' has one where, because there are more than five main characters, they have them further away, more spread out, and involved in distant activities. THAT was what flashed in my mind when I saw this lot.

All the best, and I liked your tree pictures. Trees in snow

 

I don't shoot much street these days but I have cultivated a serious interest in the sort of street photography that focuses on tableau, balanced compositions, the absurd and moments that aren't exactly decisive but certainly fleeting and visually arresting. These are in my mind more than just images but evocative moments stolen from a world I'd love to inhabit.

lead your eyes all around the frame as they burn into your memory. Here's a few of my favorites from my favorite photographers:


Untitled by 123regina, on Flickr


Untitled by krameroneill, on Flickr


Maze by John Goldsmith / Waxy, on Flickr


Untitled by nick hinch, on Flickr


ZI-200903-C-013-03b by model337, on Flickr

 

Nice thread. Herewith, some shots I took, that I like, that tried to capture what I was feeling, as I saw it projected into the scene before me.

Edit: Cannot link and embed photos yet.

 

kejago Hi ... I am the host of this thread.
If you want, post here again, and write your links without the www.

Then they will be plain text.
Then I will convert them into links, and post them with your name in big text at the top of the post. This is the same thing that happened with Confederate, who wants to post h/er collection.

I look forward to enjoying your work, and thank you for liking this thread.

Best wishes

 

Manic: Hi, and thank you so much for sourcing and sharing that collection, and for how they illustrate your description of your way of seeing.

Also, you said:

and I remembered Dorothea Lange: “The camera is a tool that teaches us how to see without a camera.”
I believe it teaches us to see these evocative moments more and more with less and less gaps, until this world we'd love may become one we do, indeed, inhabit.

I would appreciate your sharing, please more street-photography images and thoughts, with which you tease apart the strands of these realities outside our front door.

 

Thanks Zen, but even a partial url gets caught and it wont let me post. A post here and there will soon have me up to the required 15 or so. I'll drop by later again to post a pic or 2.

 

OK, kejago, and thank you

 

1987



Fellow weary travelers. First the train broke down.
The train folk put us on a bus. That bus broke down an hour later.
We waited on the side of road in the cold desert night a few more hours for another bus.
The sun came up and I walked to the front of the bus and took this photo.

 

Hi ring. Well! The bus imposes a strict order - shapes and limits to where people can 'be'. But what's wrong?? Bits of people and stuff in wrong places and angles?
THEN I read your story. It's a decisive picture of a .. of an Indecisive Moment ... y'all were probably exhausted, cold and didn't know when things were going to change.

It sure disrupted me, because it was so normal yet so wrong. I examined it with different crops and also in black and white, which gave interestingly different feels, but it was as if the connection between everyone was their bubbles of separateness. Tell me, Ring, were the people like that most of the time, or did any 'round the camp-fire in adversity' mood of togetherness build at all?

 

The bubbles of separateness are palpable, indeed,
I believe because
most of us were traveling to meet familial obligations during a major US holiday.

I did meet and hang with some fab traveling companions for stretches of the trip.
Traveling from San Diego to Philadelphia by train is thousands of miles.
Lots of adventures. Fond memories.

 

these were taken at a Barack Obama rally back in October of 2008.
downtown Orlando.
we were all sooo happy.
seems sooo long ago.



















my little boohead (not so little anymore)

 

Nice thread, great photos.