People

People make the best subjects for photography.
Unfortunately those willing to submit to the lens without a substantial fee are as rare and furtive as bush babies.  { bush_hultongetty_160415s.jpg  in case you're wondering }

Here are a few people caught in the act of real life.



    This is an available light shot I had imagined for years.
    I was finally able to capture the moment while construction was taking place
in the boiler room of my own apartment complex. 
My advice?  Always have your camera by your side
and, if you want to keep life interesting, never ever use the front door.

I love shooting in Europe. 

Southern Italy and Sicily in particular. 

The streets team with real life moments day and night. 

This busker scene in Messina had it all. 

Expression, colour, cobblestones and even a dog.

This couldn't have worked out better if I had set it up.  And the shot begged for black & white treatment.  Double click on the image for a closer look.  And, by the way, the puppies were free to good homes.

           

This is on the site of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

http://www.yadvashem.org/

A plain clothes soldier accompanies every local school bus tour to the site.

He is waiting outside the memorial for the group he is charged with protecting.

At peace and in repose yet always prepared to defend,

this moment was, for me, a part of the monument

and a part of Israel and what it stands for.

Street art, and street artists always captivate me. 

Haste combined with attention to detail

produces an intensity that elevates the artistic merit

of these often magnificent yet always transient works.

The constant juxtaposition of the ancient with everyday life 

is probably what fires the imagination of most North American travellers

and inevitably draws us back to our "roots" in the Old World.

 

A homeless person approaches an oncoming "fashionista" who's body language appears to express discomfort.  I won't say where this was taken.  It could be any urban centre on the globe.