Street Photography

''If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph” -Bruce Gilden
 

Okay, I don't even know who 'Bruce Gilden' is,  I Just took his quote because it fits.

 

Anyway, I'm not going to delve into the whole study, ethics, and position of Street Phography, it only caught my attention because of the name of a Street Photragher's book.

 

'COLLECTING SOULS'

 

And what made me(who is not that all interested in photos of any kind) take a closer look at this book, was the Book cover itself.

 

A child that you don't even know the expression of its face, because he has he's back to you, little bare shoulders poking out of his vest, venturing into a dark, forgotten, once glamorous (probably) mansion.

 

I didn't 'read' the ebook, I just scrolled through the pictures.

 

If there ever is pictures that; ''Every picture tells a story'' than its a Street Photographer's unposed for pictures.

 

Check it out here on Google Documents:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Q9L3DBAU-kIJ:www.85mm.ch/book/CollectingSouls.pdf+&hl=en&gl=za&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESirNSO7QhcSXgpnvpN93mPcDJMjrqNWDn4vDsTsfwyqO_j4KQrhRVM6MNq0xvFfUs78yCXxXjlhww7IiqRcf7leyd4uKJxFoCTZMflRulQ1k2Oexb74M7vvNcdJsZ6zG3iLOQZ6&sig=AHIEtbQK-tLu0x1de1TXLc1k1qiORRfqdQ

Ahh Muhammad Ali!

You gotta love his quotes. Man, he's smart!

Check out my all time favaourites:

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
― Muhammad Ali

Colour in/out the shapes

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

"Keep on knocking
'til the joy inside
opens a window
look to see who's there"
-Rumi-

Two genuine quotes I wish to whisper to a child.

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." — Shel Silverstein

Something to read

I came across this just at the right time.
Isn't this something that just uplifts your spirits?

''Patience with family is love,
Patience with others is respect,
Patience with self is confidence
and Patience with GOD is faith.''

Whoever is the writer of this, I thank you.

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

''If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."
— François Mauriac 

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

''The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.''

- Oscar Wilde.

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
- Jim Henson.

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

''He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.''
- Ali Bin Abi Talib (R.A).

From My Collection of Favourite Quotes

''Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.''
 -Oscar Wilde