Street Scene, Nakazakicho

this is a significant street scene McRitchie-sensei --- upward and backwards truly excellent, strong, terrifically slanted and menacing!

Carlos has said it. Wonderfull street photo,Jack!

regards,

Mário

Jack, Above our head is more than we think.

take a look HERE...

I just can't believe how this is even possible!

Makes one feel objectified.

i love this shot ---there an extraordinary sense of alienation here that connects with me visceral, instantly, a moment with a feeling that is most rare to find in a photograph, more kin to the controls we get in cinema. The moment is full of menace, and amazingly deliberate as if choreographed, directed like, when you consider the masked lady in the background, the half turned cop a few feet behind her, the city worker up on the hydro lift, everything momentarily arrested in the shot, and they all seem on to you, at least aware, if not absolutely locked onto to you, you directing the supporting actors to the main star, the hard dude standing upfront and ready to burst trough the frame. I love the artistic authority you manage here McRitchie-sensei, the terrific slant you allowed for the building in the back, the barely hanging Osakian tower of Pisa that further stamps the fabulous tension, and how could I even get my head around the inscrutable traffic signs... Things are about to fall apart in the frame for me, the promise is there anyway, and it's been sometime since i've had as much fun with a picture. Shooting upward from the waist was the choice approach in creating this very exciting photograph Jack, and its already 2015 and by all evidence the older you get the better an artist you are.

A gem, Mr. McRitchie.  I can add nothing to the wonderful analysis by Carlos above. 

it's a witty shot taken by a photographer who is fully aware of the importance of the background while shooting a portrait in the street. Discovering step by step all the elements behind and above the man is a real treat. It's funny but I have the impression that it's not you who found the scene but they're all the people within the frame who found you and composed the whole for you;-)

the signs and traffic light above the head are like giving you all directions in life.

Spencer

His expression is curious, slightly guarded, slightly amused, half-connected, half-distracted.  The accoutrements of city life frame him well.  My eye is drawn to the woman in the face mask and the cop with the reflective band on his hat.  The opening of his jacket reveals a white color and sliver of shirt.  It makes me think of the sky cut into pieces above him.