Queen St., Saturday Night

Congratulations Tony!!

on your comment to patricia's pow in december you wrote "a real fluidity of movement that makes me want to start again"

if you make pic's like this you should never stop!

we love it!

paul&patricia

 

This is fantastic. Great composition and lighting. My personal favorite film and lens. Unbeatable combination.

5760 dpi!!! Egads man, whatta ya gonna do, make a mural out of it?!!

The best photo in your portfolio!!!

Almost as good as it gets and the best I found here.

The more i see it, the more i like it.

I think I would crop a bit off the top ...but that is to nit-pick what is otherwise a great picture.

I don't think the top affects composition too much. As far as content, I think the signs and the lights at the top add positively to the story. Otherwise this would have been more a group portrait (that could have been taken in a studio) than a candid or "street" shot, I think.

Tony,

 

I keep coming back to look at this and it's sinking in more and more that you are a breed apart. So much so, I want to invest while the rest of the world remains ignorant--please contact me privately and let me know what you'll charge for a print. I can even trade you a pic from one of the photonet Turkish masters if you like.

tony

 

As an aussie living in NYC, I want to also add my congrats on the work you had as part of the MILK exhibition. As an amateur who saw your work first on photo.net, I was especially thrilled to see the outback shots you have had exhibited here. As some of the other comments have made abundantly clear, this street scene and your other work is always not only technically exceptional, but tells a story that I keep coming back to and keep seeing more. What more could you ask of light on film?! can't wait to see more of your stuff pop up where it belongs - on a site that shows the best of the world.

Cheers

This is one of my all time favourite photographs. It has so many points of interests that you find more to look at it. Excellent!

.......of the Adobe award you took with it. Great image!!

db

I love the hat and the expression on the face of the smoker.

This shot is captivating. To this day I have never found myself staring at an image. I've been looking at it for about 5 minutes now, and I had trouble stopping to write in a comment. I'm not advanced enough to be able to tell you exactly what it is that captivates me so much. It's strange how "alive" the moment seems. I can only wish that in 30 years from now, I'll have a photograph that will make me shiver like this one.

 

Simply stunning.

Not much I can add here that hasn't been better said by someone else, except I could see this on a CD cover. They look like a band. The comparisons to HCB are apt, but I'll go one better...how about Ruth Orkin...One more thing, you mentioned luck...I don't think so, pal... razor sharp instinct is more like it.

A10.

I have had a wonderful time browsing through this folder and i haven't even come close to looking at them all. You have a great honesty in your photographs - of the sort that is rare but that is required to make excellent un-posed portraiture. I would love if you would view my two folders of portraits and let me know what you think of them. Thanks so much for sharing all this great work.

This is one of my favorite photos on PN. I might have cropped out the white part of the sign above them, and just left the "Canturbury Arcade," but this is a minor detail.

There is no reason to give a lower rating.

Perfect again!

yea ! Cartier-bresson was the ONE, whose photos look very similar like this one. Life, life and again life is captured here ... Nice !!! :) -veronika-

This is absolutely my favorite!

Tony, you make me wanna go out and take pictures.

You are insparing, what else can I say?

Captures a beautiful moment. The photo ages well, staged or not, sometimes artifice can create something 'natural' like this. Posing for the camara, the exuberance of youth.

Thanks Shamir. Just to reiterate: it wasn't staged. I wouldn't have been there in total for more than about 10 or twenty seconds. And I never saw them again (although once I tried to find out who they were, many years later).

Your street pictures are really something, they have inpspired me to street photography.