Portraiture Again

I have decided to just label my street photos of people as "Portraiture".
This somehow takes the sting out of wondering about all the legislation now ruling the taking of photos in public places. Another blast of information has been posted in the Photography Forum in Boards.ie, decrying the death of candid urban photography.

I think I'll just make a simple Rogue's Gallery of the most pleasant moments shared while travelling.
No point in getting in a wax...

Street Portraits

I'm really proud of this photo.
The subject seemed so comfortable when the camera appeared and it enlivened a dull moment walking along a rainy street in Leeds.

It was my first visit to the city and there were many other new visitors about, commenting and trying to interpret what we saw. The street traders are very much in evidence and I missed a shot of a pleasant man selling the "Big Issue" purely because I was trying to manoeuvre the doors into the Victoria Arcade.

I expect that most of the traders are locals and there is a discussion about this in the Title Bar.