Your Favorite Street Photo You Made

[photogdave]

Let's see your favorite street photo that you took yourself! Tell us why you like it and what makes it special to you.
Here's mine:

This my own fave for a number of reasons. This is one of the first frames I shot on my first visit to NYC. I like the statement it makes with the yawning boy seeming to be bored with the world of fashion and commercialism that surrounds him. It also has a New York feel for me with the jazz club signs and models featured in the poster behind him.
When I took it more than 10 years ago I don't think I had really ever heard the term 'street photography' although I was aware of the works of HCB and others.
I shot this with my old Nikon F-801 and crappy Sigma 28-80mm zoom on crappy Konica 100 color neg film. This was a classic instinctive shot - no thought or planning, just sensing a good photo and stopping long enough to fire off one frame. As soon as I developed it I cropped it and converted it to black and white.
It's printed 8x10 and framed above the toilet in our powder room.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I don't have a single favorite, but I got some of my best ones at the weekly anti-war protests that were held every Friday at noon in Santa Fe.

 

[nightfly]

This one captures one of those surprising moments where strange symmetries emerge out of chaos and random interactions that characterize the urban environment. I like how the frame is used and how it breaks out of the usual mold of very derivative street photos. It tells a lot of it's story through suggestion rather than being overly literal. It's a shot that overcomes the "anxiety of influence" and wouldn't be confused with any of the photographers I admire but works on it's own and has an internal logic/beauty.

 

[EdLam]

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This shot was taken last fall at Union Square in Manhattan. Across the street in the background and juxtaposed against the sign is a Whole Foods, mother of all consumeristic grocery stores.

 

[Nescio]

Not really my all time favourite, but as I'm just a little chaotic indexing, Chris' photos reminded me of this one, last year when FC. Barcelona celebrated winning the Champions League.
But made with my M7, for sure. No crop, no PS editing, just some 28 buckled to the body.
As an afterthought: wrong framing again! Should 've been aware of the person on the left as a counterpart of the one at the right.

 

[shyoon]

Not my favourite, but a recent one that I really like. Excuse the terrible scanning.

 

[Mister E]

Cooking by Firelight by NateVenture, on Flickr

 

[Mcary]

 

[coelacanth]

One of my favorites.

 

[bhop73]

Not technically on the street, but a public event (art show, at a photo studio, hence the curved wall) this couple was dancing alone in a room where everyone else was just standing around looking at art. I like everything about this. The lighting, the tones, the look of pure joy on the girl's face.


Dance by bhop, on Flickr

 

[Harry S.]

I like this one of mine. Things just seemed to work out with this one, and I didnt ruin it in processing! 🙂


. by Harry Shaud, on Flickr

 

[Keith]

Probably this because I'm not what I would call a comfortable or natural street photographer ... and it was hard earned being shot with a Crown Graphic.

 

[andredossantos]

OK, hard to pick absolute favorites, but here are some of the shots Im digging right now.

I really like this one cause I scale focused @ 1.2 and shot it @ 1/30 on a moving train. I had little hope it'd come out and forgot about it promptly. Only remembered taking it when I got the negatives back and I was psyched it actually came out decent.


Untitled by andre dos santos, on Flickr

In B&W, these are a tie for my fav:


strictly business by andre dos santos, on Flickr


Untitled by andre dos santos, on Flickr

 

[Harry S.]

Thats really something, Keith. I love how the Graphic handled the detail in the curtains too.

What a great thread.

 

[Costo Kim]

(one of my favourites)

it is an autumn of 2008
I was on my way to work - there is bus stop behind these people who cleaning street from fallen leaves
I haven't thought much - just stopped and made 2 shots from the hip
and one of them has catched something that goes beyond simple fact 'these people doing that'... at least I believe so 🙂

I'm seeing similar scenes with similar workers every autumn, but I never think photographying them again because I've already made a photo

 

[coelacanth]

andredossantos reminded me I liked this one a lot too. the composition and zone focus worked well.

M2 & Elmar-M 50/2.8, HP5@1600 in D-76, zone focused hipshot.


Singularity within by Suguru Nishioka, on Flickr

 

[kdemas]

I wouldn't say this is my favorite but it's in the top 50 🙂

 

[Keith]

(one of my favourites)

it is an autumn of 2008
I was on my way to work - there is bus stop behind these people who cleaning street from fallen leaves
I haven't thought much - just stopped and made 2 shots from the hip
and one of them has catched something that goes beyond simple fact 'these people doing that'... at least I believe so 🙂

I'm seeing similar scenes with similar workers every autumn, but I never think photographying them again because I've already made a photo

Wow .... I love the movement blur in this. It really sets it aside from just another street shot ... I can see why you chose it. 🙂

 

[Rick Waldroup]

I do not have a favorite, so I will just post the most recent.

Corner of 3rd and Main Street - Fort Worth, Texas - October 18, 2010

 

[nightfly]

The train photos made me think of this one.