From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The morning sun hits the financial district, glinting off the pinstripes of businessmen gripping the new, full-color *Wall Street Journal* like it’s a revolutionary manifesto. I’m leaning against a soot-stained brick wall, watching some tech-obsessed peeps ignore the skyline to fiddle with those clunky new camera phones, desperate to upload their lives onto Friendster. The air tastes of espresso and diesel, and I can hear a shopkeeper nearby cursing as he tries to get his circular Roomba to navigate a thick rug. Between the screech of taxis and the muffled bass of a J-Lo remix from a passing car, I frame a shot of a silhouette lost in the neon glare of a newsstand.