Sitting Around
Last summer I showed some pictures from a micro 4/3 digital camera that I took. I had a new work project camera at home to get familiar with prior to some field work. I noted then that one of the reasons I have been coveting a pocketable digital camera was the ability to take street photographs without being obvious about it. Since then I have decided that the small point and shoot film cameras fill that need. I have also realised that I don’t feel all that good about taking candid shots.
I cropped all of these for instagram, and a couple of them showed up there.
The last shot is very nostalgic for me. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone outside a photofinishing store looking at their prints. It was such a common sight for so long, but it must be 8 or 10 years since I last noticed someone doing this.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1, m.Zuiko Digital 12-40mm lens, ISO200
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burnt embers 
You have done some excellent street photography ehpem. In this post especially the first photo is topnotch in that respect but they all have a story to tell. Looking at this set of images made me think about black and white rather than color mostly being my preferred film for street photography. Here, too, even though photo 2 is definitely a photo that calls one back for more perusals, the stronger images of the set to my mind are b/w. On a different note, I have liked square format since the seventies after acquiring a Yashica Mat twin lens camera. It was my play camera for nearly 20 years. Both the viewfinder and the square format composing made using that camera a delight. Your photos here fit perfectly in the square format. Great post.
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Hi Joseph – thanks so much for your detailed comment on this post. I have largely retreated from street photography as it makes me uncomfortable, except sometimes I have a camera in hand and something has to be tried, though usually I am not set up for it (pre-focus, pre-exposure set, etc) so the images often don’t come out well. I often like to try a square crop – some images just call out for it. I agree about black and white as well. I think that the second shot works better in colour due to the orange costume and for the other one I just did not like the black and white conversion for some reason. I might not have tried hard enough in post though.
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I have friends who still print their (now digital) photos, and put them in albums. They have thousands of memories, going back 40 years!
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I think it is probably an excellent idea to print the best digital ones with archival quality paper and inks as the chances of the electronic ones surviving a decade or two seem ever more remote.
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