Sitter

Though technically not a "street" photo, this was spotted from the street.

Thank you for your constructive comments.

PDE

Many thanks, Pierre.

Good light management. compliments -koushik

Samrat, admirable composition,exposure & light.I particularly like how the face of the guard is covered by the signboard(?).

How else to describe this?

You went to the National Portrait Gallery.

The Portrait Gallery Features paintings and perhaps photos of faces.

You took one photo to represent it.

It includes the words on the door and (perhaps) a guard.

Inexplicably, except for your very puckish sense of humor, he has absoluely no face; it's hidden behind signage.

This is a sort of puckish anarchist's view of the National Portrait Gallery-- you seem to be saying 'you are dedicated to faces, I'll make art (and humor) from the opposite. Stick THAT in your face!'

Oh, the man's prim pose also helps (he's sitting as though sitting for a portrait; this wouldn't have worked if he were casually wandering around, or sitting on a ledge, leaning, talking with arms animated).

I can think of ways it might have been better presented with other views, other ways and other places, but the 'street' photographer absolutely HAS to go with what cards he's dealt, and there are no do-overs and no re-arranging. 

Sometimes 'luck' favors us; sometimes not, and sometimes it deals us a flush, but the cards are a pair of threes and three twos, and one makes the best one can with those.

In fact, it's possibly how good one does with the good but low cards that may distinguish the true 'distinguished photographer' with sight from the lucky guy with a camera; you are a photographer, no doubt about it.

Pulitzers have been won by lucky guys with cameras (I took over a desk at AP in New York City from a guy who left it to take photos, and in his first year got a Pulitzer photo anyone could have taken if they were there (black with bandoliers at Cornell Univ., but of course, I'd have been happy to have been the recipient of that Pulitzer, don't get me wrong; I'm not that picky).

Good for you.

For seeing.

For arranging.

For creating (this is NOT just a capture).

Be proud.

(oh and keep taking MORE)

john

John (Crosley)

Nice light and color.

A very haunting photograph after a long long time. Reminds me of Hussain's Mother Teresa portrait with empty dark eyes.

John's comments sum up everything. 

Once again a BIG congratulations for a wonderful composition.