The streets are alive| street photography photo blog

out_line

Rarely do I choose a scene for its particular form, distinctive lines or like in this case, outlines.  Often I don’t even notice their existence… 

This is one of these rare occasions.

 

Westwood

winter

It seems like a looooong winter

Venice Beach

Untouched

An answer to a previous question:

If you use/create an effect for the sake of the effect or in order to make your image looking cool, it’s possible pushing too much or over doing might take place.

However, when your objective is to put an idea across than it cannot be measured.

And obviously some pictures are best in their raw state:

Early days

Finally I decided to get the nonPhotography.com URL address.
I have no idea why I didn’t get it before.  Strange!

Going down Memory lane:  I created the non-photography website in March 2001 after looking into photography as it was presented through its different forms and realizing it just didn’t fit with the natural [rule-free] inner drive I had.

Obviously I was neither a photographer nor striving to become one.

. . . . . . . . .

This is one of the very earliest pictures I’ve made.  It was taken in Harlem, New York in 2000.

 

The next step

sometimes simplifying an image brings it closer to reality

Westwood 2005

Right on!

If non-photography would have just one little trivial rule, no doubt it would have to be:
do not, I repeat, do not sneak on people!
[Consider confidence and openness.]   
But then again non-photography encourages free thinking :)

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Lower eastside, Manhattan

coming soon - -

Just letting you know I began putting together this photoblog into a book titled (surprise surprise) "The streets are alive. photoblog"
It will  include some of the pictures and the text that accompanied them.  Each image will also include your lovely comments. 
At the end of the book I will list the links to your websites/blogs. 
Feel free to post any suggestions or questions you might have or contact me by email.

 

the human story

I read somewhere that it was a frequent practice in the 1920’s to photograph from bridges, windows and other elevated locations in order to show the street as a board game with people, cars and other objects as game pieces.

No doubt this kind of approach minimizes the personal story while emphasizing on the composition and the general relationship between the “pieces”.   Now take away the human story and you are left with a nicely composed photograph, and nothing more.

California the beautiful

more rain

It never rains...

in Southern California

Hollywood Blvd.

dream on

I love looking at old photographs.  Sometimes I wish I could go back in a time tunnel to, I don’t know, maybe London of the late 1800’s or NY in the 50’s and photograph life as it was.

Therefore whenever any of my (non)photos turns out looking like an old one, I can’t help but feeling delighted.

Powell, San Francisco

fire

And so our favorite neighborhood grocery store was destroyed by a fire…

An after thought

my quest...it is what it is, and it appears to be primarily focused on the study (or basic love) of humans in their artificially natural habitat.

2005

It's like I always say; "I can't believe it's already..."