The Passing Moment

Life on the street

Cheers

 

PDE

The whole world consists of a whole string of "nothing much" but that's where all the good things lie. Thanks for the comment. Regards, Jack

Jack,

Question is why the right man is watching. About the text on the sweater or is it the way the other man is trying to clean its teeth, thinking he is unobserved. Anyway a couple of things are happening on that passing moment. You observed very well and you were just in time managing to grab the moment.

Kind regards

 

 

Double entendre there, Jack?

Good to see you are back in action Jack! 

again a fleeting moment between isolated citizens crossing one another in an indifferent city, baffled at realizing they could well be the last two in the world.  
Seems as if a vague theme or thread runs thru some of your street work Jack. Or maybe I’m seeing things, but it seems as if a deliberate photographic idea is a work beyond the happenstance feel of the pictures.  Anyway, it’s the viewer’s privilege to invent things, to allow the photograph to peel back layers and reveals things, to make connections and see anew.  

aha another jack moment.. i dont think one could ever capture this moment inn time no matter how one tried

Wonderful, curious, and witty...

The skew, of course, helps. The black shirt and the white shirt, the face and the profile, the shoulder shielding the grin or the frown, the sharp and the blurred, the distinction of foreground and background. There is actually an order of opposing forces in an otherwise seemingly haphazard world. Once the world is stilled, the order imposed by the frame becomes more apparent.

 

If you ever put together a book of your photos, I suggest the title "Nothing Much!" ;-)

Thanks to the blurred background, these world for these individuals seems to be defined by the area where the detail in the dark gray building becomes clearer, and clearer.  To me, the man in the black shirt isn't cleaning his teeth; he's puzzled about something.  His eyes seem to indicate that it's something within the field of his vision.  The passerby wearing the white shirt is puzzled too, but his glance backwards tells me he's wondering about his fellow traveler. 

 

This image reinforces an important message.  Each of us is a traveler, and we occasionally pause for something that is puzzling, or beautiful, or . . .  Although the roads we take may be different, we end up in the same place.  Thanks, Jack, for allowing us to pause at this rest stop.

Michael comment is exactly what I feel me too looking this photo,is so true that we all are travelers in this world.Is a snapshot done so quickly by you for sure to catch this moment.They are not at all disturb by your presence and this is so good for photographer.

" I wonder, where  I'm lost myself" Something like this  come in my mind, when I see this  picture. The passing man is  a very  good  part of the  composition too. Watching the lost man in the street.  Very good  capture  you did  here, Jack.

Cheers.

Bela

Ha!  Quite a lot.  Interesting English words on his sweatshirt.  "the street. And.  transmitting a..spread."  So odd.  The ephemeral human arrangements which appear for a nanosecond and are gone forever, never to be repeated.