Showing posts with label street photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street photography. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2018

Chalk on the Walk - The Artist and the Spectator

Pasadena, California has a great number of arts related events, in addition to many galleries and museums found within the city.  One of the more popular art events is the Spring, once known as Chalk on the Walk and now, The Pasadena Chalk Festival. It has been going for over 20 years and grows in size each year with participants and spectators. I went to one of the first modest chalk events, so I can vouch for the event's thriving success of the present.

With the volume of people at the Chalk Festival it is always a good chance for the street photographer in me to exercise capturing the interactions and elements that come together to make a well timed image. The artists are caught up in their open air concrete 'canvas' chalk works. The observers are there to see the artists in their focused passion of creativity. The photographer is there attempting to catch the interplay between the forces chalk brings together... in approx. 90 min. of meandering.

Jim Staub, 11-2-18




















Friday, November 11, 2016

The Streets Played

Reading the streets is a survival requirement for the bicyclist. The other vehicle bigger than you. A pothole, a car part ahead sharking for the careless.  There is a language, and I converse. Linger with the camera; note the lines then...  look both ways, and take the pieces home like any other coyote.

Jim Staub, 11-12-16  

Photographs 2012 to 2015, about.








Sunday, October 30, 2016

About an Hour at York Train Station

In 2010 we took a vacation to England and Scotland. Our friends from Pasadena had moved to the Oxford district, so they threw the welcome mat down and played tour guides for a dozen days. We all took a train trip north to  Edinburg, Scotland for a few days. A stop over at the York train station gave me time to snap a few frames of the aged and beautiful station. Jim Staub - October 30, 2010