From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash powder stings my eyes as I capture a copper-buttoned doughboy escorting a lady in a restrictive hobble skirt across the dusty cobbles. Outside the newsstand, a tattered broadsheet screams GOVERNOR AND AID AT WAR.; Colorado Executive Bars Lieutenant Governor from Acting for Him., but the newsies look bored, more interested in humming that catchy "Alexander's Ragtime Band" tune. It’s a lousy day for lighting, the sepia sun swallowed by coal smoke and the roar of a passing steam-car. I adjust my tripod, focusing on a group of suffragettes whose "Votes for Women" sashes slash bright white against the drab, soot-stained wool of the afternoon rush.