From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The autumn sun glints off the polished brass of a passing curved-dash Oldsmobile, casting sharp shadows against the cobblestones. I adjust my lens to capture a dandy in a wool sack suit pausing by the newsstands, his face lengthening as he reads that we "FEAR BIG TRAFFIC BLOCKADE.; Railroads Lack Cars to Move Grain In the West." Some chump in a dusty bowler nearly ruins my frame, stumbling like a total blockhead over a loose paving stone. I click the shutter anyway, trapping the silhouette of a woman in a high-collared lace blouse against a backdrop of soot-stained brick and early morning fog.