From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The humidity clings to my heavy cotton safari jacket as I frame a shot of a businessman fumbling with smooth wooden Jenga blocks on a park bench. He’s sweating through his polyester-blend dress shirt, looking far more rattled than the predators on the movie posters plastered across the nearby construction wall. I glance at the corner station where the signs are still mocking me at $1.12 a gallon, a price that makes me want to trade my car for a bodacious pair of rollerblades. My fingers itch for the grit of the sidewalk as I wind the film, capturing the sun glinting off the polished brass of the gateway's new ironwork.