Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO. This exceptional and talented writer/artist will compose an original poem on his classic Royal typewriter, upon request. A unique street performance. A great poem created. He uses carbon paper to make a copy for himself.
Mostly, I shot b&w images for this challenge. None of them turned out to be good enough. The b&w images needed postprocessing, which was not permitted. As insurance, I shot a handful of color images, this entry being one of them. I attempted a simple desat of this, but the color version had much more impact.
Also, I captured my share of dreary, depressed, down-and-out people images. Plenty of dark mood, sympathy-type images. I do care, but I didn't see any interesting, compelling and unique scenes in the "dark" category.
[Feb. 22nd, 2011 12:22:00 PM]
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Coongrats on doing so well in this challenge Richard. I know we both were a bit out of our comfort zone with this. I was up at Pearl St on Sat afternoon, I think you may have been there either Friday or Sat morning. This same poem writer was there on Sat PM too. I took about 700 shots that day. As I passed him, he smiled at me and I'm thinking he knew what I was up to. I think it's great he wrote a poem for you!
Not your usual! I'm surprised to find this one is yours. It was a 10 for me. Great street photography and an out of the ordinary feel-good element to it.
Nice image. Personally i feel the bokeh is way too much for such a challenge as it takes that street feel off. i like the colors and the crispness in this
After looking through all of the images this one really stands out to me. I love the emotion you were able to capture in this image. One of the top contenders for sure.
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