Faces of Exit270 Part 18

Street photography is a process of examining in detail the area you find yourself attached to.  I use the word-attached -meaning that it is an area you are familiar with and gravitate to on a regular basis.    

Street photography is an urban adventure -you turn a corner and people and faces emerge to greet you.  Your eyes work quickly and you quickly move in with camera in hand to capture the scene.   If you have preset your camera settings -you only have to observe, isolate your subject, quickly shoot and move on.

I approach it with the understanding that I am not photographing a place but rather the people that occupy this space.  So my basic approach is to move in as close as allowable to capture the faces that I find lurking in the space I call Exit270.

Desert Shapes

We are so used to shooting plant life in color  -the creative possibilities of them in black and white seem alien to our thinking.

Recently I reviewed some of my desert colored images of plant life and decided to convert the original images to black and white.  To be honest I shot these images intending to make them black and white photographs originally. 

 If you are interested in having your viewer see the patterns and lines that make up the design of various plant life -black and white images will accentuate the shapes.  The object of this visual exercise is to concentrate on the shapes rather than the color.