Some cool mobile phone cases images:
Stuff in my bag
Image by ShawnHenning
All of the stuff I carry around with me, some of it is rarely used others are used every day.
Iced tea at Georgia’s
Image by Ed Yourdon
I’ve now made an edited version of this photo, which you can see here. My objective was to reduce the degree of shadows on the woman’s pants; but I may have taken away too much of the shadows on her face; I’ll let you be the judge…
This was taken at the deli/bakery (Georgia’s, see this page for details) on the southwest corner of 89th & Broadway. This woman was sitting alone, staring into space with a dreamy look on her face, and she would have appeared much more photogenic if I could have moved my camera a little faster and snapped the picture when I first saw her. But then a waiter appeared, bring what turned out to be a glass of iced tea; and he obscured my view of her for a couple moments while he was setting it down. But the time he got out of camera range, she had picked up her cell phone, and was calling someone … perhaps to report on the arrival of her iced tea…
Note: this (unedited) photo was published in a Jul 7, 2010 blog titled "Food, gadgets, and schools." It was also published in a Jul 20,2010 CofeeTea blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. And it was published in a Jul 28, 2010 Lifehacker Australia blog titled "How To Rebuild Your Attention Span And Focus," as well as a Jul 28, 2010 Curve blog, with the same title.
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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan — between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
I don’t like to intrude on people’s privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they’re still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what’s right in front of me.
I’ve also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting — literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I’ve learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture … after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it’s pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
For the most part, I’ve deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don’t want to be photographed, and I don’t want to feel like I’m taking advantage of them. I’m still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We’ll see how it goes …
The only other thing I’ve noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They’re probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I’ve photographed … but there was just nothing memorable about them.
