New Portfolio -- Birmingham (UK) Street Photographs

Hello All,

I have finally got around to putting together a portfolio of recent street

photographs from Birmingham (UK), taken over the past few years.

Do take a look -- I hope you find something to enjoy:

http://www.photo.net/photos/Alun

best regards --

Alun

As a colleague of mine remarked, when he saw my screensaver displaying street pics: "Random pictures of people in the street"

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Alun,

I think that you have a great eye for detail with your street photos. How long have you been shooting for?

Nic :-)

Nick,

Thanks a lot. I began photographing first as a teenager. Got a bit more serious -- but not

very good -- in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Then there was a huge gap -- kids etc --

when I only looked at photographs. I suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- got re-bitten by

the bug some three years or so back and began to try and teach myself to get better at

street photography. Since then I have shot every week, sticking to a fairly narrow patch of

Birmingham, my home town. I did this partly because it's convenient but also because it's

familiar and in a sense I didn't want to be distracted by 'scenery' -- I wanted to get better

and more confident at photographing people and street life.

The quest continues....

Cheers --

Alun

Nick --

The other thing I meant to say is that the past few years have also been a real learning

curve in the other thing I previously neglected: edit, edit, edit. Gradually understanding

that I am not trying to salvage the 'least bad' pictures, but trying to work out which are the

very besy pictures I am capable of must sound painfully obvious, but in fact it cam as a

kind of revelation.

-- alun