'Here's Looking At You'

Emmanual, sometimes I can spend the better part of an hour scoping out a scene waiting for the moment to snap or the same amount of time snapping away hoping for the right moment, and 'nothing'.  Nothing at all for the time.

When it's successful, that's how I got Photo of the Week, this week. 

In any case, I'm getting better, so sooner or later I get something, almost every time I go out, even if it isn't anything near what I had envisioned, or even if my path gets diverted and I don't end up where I thought I was headed.

I sometimes value the long path.

Here is just a moment.

I spied the poster and the guy, and he was NOT looking directly at me, but my movement caused him to look directly at me (maybe I hoped for that) and voilà.

And voici.

The cracks in the display glass match even complement or 'mirror' his jacket zippers.  Can you get more good luck than that?

But in tens and hundreds of thousands of photos there are bound to be some good ones -- even good 'mirroring devices like the cracks and jacket zipper' and though this one was mostly planned parts fell into place to make it more than what was planned.

Others have the opposite result, however, as you surely understand.

So, I'm proud to show you this, and HIDE the others on my hard drives -- wanna-be photos that never made it.

For me 'street'  is like golf.  You can almost never get hole-in-ones, but if you keep playing you reach the end, always. 

And the more you play the better your score gets, if you're attentive and learn from the experience.

Thanks for letting me know your high rate (I already let you know I cannot thank for high rates themselves, but just for the conveyance of your opinion, which is very valuable to me.)

john

John (Crosley)

(sorry for the belated response -- Photo of the Week drew away my attention and I overlooked checking recent posts.  Please accept my apologies for lateness.)

jc