A go a street photography.

bantor · Jan 25, 2006

I woke up a little early today (before 4 in the afternoon) so I decided I would take a walk down town. I ran into this group of characters and started chatting. After hearing MANY stories which I am sure a mostly fictional I asked if I could take a few photos. They agreed, and this is what came of it.

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3. When I took this one, this guy was explaining how he is the best panhandler in all of Calgary.

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5. In this one and the one above, he was explaining how he is the last surviving menber of the "Satan's Angels" biker gang.

Comments and Critique are welcome. If you want to see larger versions of these check out my web page (the banner in my sig.)

JonK · Jan 25, 2006

# 3 rocks! :thumbup: you got right in there....good on ya!

great series.

bantor · Jan 25, 2006

Thanks JonK. It was actaully alot of fun. I talked with these guys for like an hour, and let me tell ya, they had some interesting stories. There was this one guy (on the top picture, furthest back.) who is a crack daeler, he made a grab for my camera, that got my heart going. Nice guys otehr than that incident though.

AprilRamone · Jan 25, 2006

These are great. I really love #2 and #3. I think it's great that you were able to get all of their faces in #2.:thumbup:

Verbal · Jan 25, 2006

I love these!

bantor · Jan 25, 2006

Why thank you very much.

puzzle · Jan 26, 2006

I think #4 is my favourite, I like the spontaneity of it :thumbup:

Arch · Jan 26, 2006

well done these are great. I know what your saying, its always dogey taking photos of people with nothing, when your using a nice expensive camera! But you've done a great job here number 3 is my fav too :thumbup:

Alexandra · Jan 26, 2006

these are amazing! you perfectly captured some kind of spirit here :thumbup:

photo gal · Jan 26, 2006

Theses are all very well done....My favorite is #3....Great job! : )

bantor · Jan 26, 2006

Thanks again everyone!

Alexandra said:
these are amazing! you perfectly captured some kind of spirit here :thumbup:

You know I have to agree =)

mcb · Jan 27, 2006

i think that the first three were a little "planned" looking.
what makes a great street photo in my opinion is that they aren't looking at you and that they are in their complete normal environment.
i love the last few though.

Ghoste · Jan 27, 2006

These are great. I love the last one the most and in my opinion seems to have the most photojournalistic style in it. I love how "Satans Angels" isn't even what the group is called and there are still tons of Hell's Angels around lol.