While I have been embarrassingly slow to process and post any new images, both online here and at Google+ for the 366 project, I thought I would upload this particular image from my last round of street photography in downtown Vancouver. I wanted to capture an angle of a building and theatre sign that has…
Street Photography is one of the most difficult shooting genres I find to pursue confidently; I am not an in-your-face type of photographer and prefer the styles of Gary Winogrand, Vivian Maier and local photographer Fred Herzog where they documented life without necessarily being obtrusive. ‘Street Photography’, at least to me can be characterized more as documenting a point in time (such as Fred Herzog) or as a means to invite the viewer into the image, to spend some time looking around and find their own story/stories within.
Theme of the month, “The Orton Effect”: this image was taken of Vancouver’s False Creek and Yaletown “Dreamscape” vista in 2009 and post processed using the Orton Effect.
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