Louis Pasteur once said that “Chance favors the prepared mind.” The photographer must always be alert; there is no off duty. You never know what you will see, and all of us have stories of the images that got away.
Here is one of my favorites from a few years ago at a bus stop on State Street in the Loop area of Chicago. Shot in color, I transformed it to black and white because I wanted primarily the silhouette, the shape, and the tones. Backlit against the advertisement, which amazingly said “man kind,” this captured a woman at the end of day, shopping done, waiting for the bus to go home. I like it because of its humanity and of the intimate and solitary moment of an individual doing a very normal act like waiting for a bus, and yet I find something profound about this moment, this person, and her place in the city.
I welcome your comments.
Here is one of my favorites from a few years ago at a bus stop on State Street in the Loop area of Chicago. Shot in color, I transformed it to black and white because I wanted primarily the silhouette, the shape, and the tones. Backlit against the advertisement, which amazingly said “man kind,” this captured a woman at the end of day, shopping done, waiting for the bus to go home. I like it because of its humanity and of the intimate and solitary moment of an individual doing a very normal act like waiting for a bus, and yet I find something profound about this moment, this person, and her place in the city.
I welcome your comments.
