Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

31 Mar 2014 19 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in Urban, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , ,

This weeks photo challenge is all about ‘street life’… the only recent street life photos I’ve taken were all in or around Brick Lane and I think I’ve posted enough of those for now!  So I decided to use some from a holiday in France back in 2011!  

Hope you enjoy them…

A couple of buskers… love that sax sound!
This local was sharpening knives at his stall and the guy next to him was selling all manner of knives… possibly a father and son team?!
Two more buskers… my son loved listening to the guitarists we heard around the market!
Pigeon street life!
The under cover part of the market
This cute little guy was sitting on a display stand watching the street life go by while his owner went about his business!
This flute busker looks like he’s come straight from Narnia!
A quieter side of street life!
Two ladies take time out to relax and have a catch up!
Street life signs!
No choice but to relax and follow behind slowly!

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Sights, sounds & smells of Brick Lane

17 Mar 2013 15 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in Food, Urban Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Brick Lane on a Sunday morning… so much going on, so much to see and so many good things cooking…!

Quotes that speak to my soul…

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
What you have caught on film is captured forever...
it remembers little things,
long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

"You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes." - Ernst Haas

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by Dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

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