Well 'captured' Steve (sorry). Certainly symbolic if your looking for it, I just think its a great shot and whilst a normal lens would procude a different shot I do think the LB effect was the way to go. Sadly I keep getting drawn up to the pole just above your model, it looks odd to me
Heck, I'd take it. Think of the places you could take it and shoot it! 'Grats on a second thumb. I think the Lensbaby is working out quite nicely for you!
Oh yes - incredible street photography with the LB. I am definitely enjoying your shots. I always feel so self-conscious with a camera on a busy street, so I applaud your work...
I immediately wondered where this was taken when I saw the picture. NYC figures. You never see things like this in the area I'm at. Love the quirkiness of it. Great subject.
This is a keeper, Steve. It has that unrehearsed, never-to-be-repeated wit that is in my view is the very best thing about street photographs. It's the fact that you really can't set this up that makes it so durable. Well, theoretically you might be able to stage it, but it would not, could not, look like this.
In spite of my support of your work over the past few years, I am only a casual admirer of street photography. The reason is that while the best of street photography is an imperishable pleasure, quite a lot of it is derivative. Like a knock-knock joke; you can only stand a certain amount of them until you start to wince in embarrassment for the teller before you've even heard the punch line. But in spite of that, I still keep coming back to the street stuff because when you get a good one, it makes up for all the imitative dross. You produce more than your fair share of 'good ones', and this photograph is comfortable in the company of the best work of any street photographers, anywhere.
As for the Lensbaby dimension, it really does enhance the already-heart-stopping photograph. Not just for the isolating effect of the selective focus, which directs our attention to the tethered torso nicely. But also because of the sense of recoil that it gives to the facial expression of the man with the coffee. Through that, we share his moment of astonishment all the more convincingly.
This has never happened before (and I never thought it would), but I have no choice ... I must award you a second Order of the Thumb:
Heck, I'd take it in a city minute! I've always wanted one of those. And NYC is full of people weirder than I... I love this shot, actually, it's so... so... *human*!
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