From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash of my Leica catches the sheen of oversized nylon windbreakers and baggy denim as the crowd surges toward the cinema for the *Starship Troopers* premiere. A girl in a velvet choker stops mid-stride, frantically pressing the plastic buttons on her Tamagotchi to keep the digital pet alive under the city's neon glow. She catches me looking and flashes a smug grin, adjusts her platform sneakers, and says, "Sweet," as the shutter clicks. Heavy headlines about some campus scandal at New Paltz litter the rain-slicked pavement, ignored by the teenagers lost in the haze of the night.