From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The sunlight glints off the scratchy spandex of a jogger's leggings as I focus my lens, catching a woman in a salt-stained, oversized sweatshirt adjusting her neon leg warmers. Through the viewfinder, I see a kid on a sticky vinyl bus seat frantically twisting a plastic Autobot, the gritty click-clack of the Transformers' joints echoing against the metal roar of the street. I pull my camera back as a girl in a sweat-dampened headband rolls her eyes at her friend, muttering "gag me with a spoon" over the price of a soda. The air tastes of exhaust and the heavy sweetness of hairspray, thick enough to coat the rough cotton of my jacket.