I really love the medium of street photography. I was never really comfortable with model portraiture in the past because I always had this grand idea and image in my head and they never really turned out the way I wanted them to. I chalk it up to that bit of perfectionist within me (actually it really is more like A LOT and not a bit...). Street photography is vastly different. I can still do portraits (given the right situations) but I can go into a situation without no prior image or idea in my head and take the shot. The majority of the resulting images I get really satisfy me because I'm able to capture a person's essence in that particular moment in time which really is a beautiful thing to me. Everytime I'm satisfied with one of my street portrait photos, it helps build my confidence and allows me to be more comfortable in model situations.
This is one of my favorite images I've taken. It was during the May Day rally in Downtown Los Angeles and there was this one band setting up their equipment on a corner of the sidewalk and when the rally started to march down the street, these guys started to play this beautiful sounding Mexican ska that felt charged with emotion in a political/social issue type of way if that makes any sense. As I walked up, I was able to capture this shot of the singer just before he sung out the first words to the song.
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