Tag: Olympus XA

  • Dispatches from a shy street photographer: waiting

    Today’s image in this series comes from Amsterdam. I had a lot of fun randomly pointing my camera at things in that city. 🙂 This was the first outing with my XA. In fact, my friend, Inge had just given to me when we met a few days before.   Geeky Bits: Camera: Olympus XA…

  • Dispatches from a shy street photographer: Man without a face

    I spent a few short hours in Dublin and didn’t take many photos, and the ones that I did take didn’t come out very well, technically (the roll had some development issues). However, it’s such an interesting place and there is so much going on. I am looking forward to returning and spending more time shooting the…

  • Dispatches from a shy street photographer: sky walk, Barcelona

    Here is another example of an accidental street photography shot. I was really  mostly interested in that ornate sky walk above the alley but when I looked at it later I really liked the human element in the photo. Incidentally, that ornate sky walk was in a book I looked at last night about ball…

  • Dispatches from a shy street photographer – Busker

    The next photo from this series comes from Barcelona’s Park Guell.  When I saw this guy playing the guitar I knew this was street photography material. I had to take a few versions of this. In one of them a woman backed ever so slightly out of the columns as she took a photo of…

  • Dispatches from a shy street photographer – Travelers

    Today’s image is from Barcelona’s beautiful Parc de la Ciutadella, at the top of the park’s ornate fountain. For some reason this photo reminds me of the film “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” – the scene at the end when all of the missing earthlings were walking off of the spacecraft, returned to Earth.…