From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The damp November air clings to the wool coats of the crowd, making the heavy tweed feel like lead against their shoulders. I adjust my tripod, watching a polished gentleman hand over soft brass coins for a loaf of rye; it’s a capital day when a mere $0.05 fills your belly and leaves enough for the trolley. Nearby, a child grips a plush Teddy Bear, its mohair fur matted by sticky fingers and the soot of the city. Some blockhead nearly trips over my lens in his rush toward the charity gala, his stiff celluloid collar scratching at a neck reddened by the biting autumn wind.