From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The damp cobblestones of Brooklyn hum with the rattle of passing hansom cabs, while the sharp salt air catches the starch of a passerby’s towering wing collar. A newsboy leans against a soot-stained brick wall, rhythmically whistling "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" between shouts about the Sheriff’s legal drama. Blimey, the light is hitting just right as a woman in a heavy wool serge skirt pauses to check her reflection in a shop window. I adjust the bellows of my camera to capture the grit of the city before the Sunday calm is broken by the clatter of the elevated train.