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Challenge: Street Photography IV (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM
Location: Pearl Street Mall, Boulder CO
Date: Feb 12, 2011
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/5000s
Galleries: Candid, Street
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2011

 Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO. This exceptional and talented writer/artist will compose an original poem on his classic Royal typewriter, upon request. A unique street performance. A great poem created. He uses carbon paper to make a copy for himself.

Mostly, I shot b&w images for this challenge. None of them turned out to be good enough. The b&w images needed postprocessing, which was not permitted. As insurance, I shot a handful of color images, this entry being one of them. I attempted a simple desat of this, but the color version had much more impact.

Also, I captured my share of dreary, depressed, down-and-out people images. Plenty of dark mood, sympathy-type images. I do care, but I didn't see any interesting, compelling and unique scenes in the "dark" category.

[Feb. 22nd, 2011 12:22:00 PM]

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Statistics
Place: 11 out of 104
Avg (all users): 6.1801
Avg (commenters): 7.7143
Avg (participants): 6.2653
Avg (non-participants): 6.1543
Views since voting: 1699
Views during voting: 377
Votes: 211
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/10/2012 05:05:25 PM
Lovely..
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 02/27/2011 05:15:10 AM
This one was my favorite. I would have picked it to win.
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 02/23/2011 04:54:52 AM
Coongrats on doing so well in this challenge Richard. I know we both were a bit out of our comfort zone with this. I was up at Pearl St on Sat afternoon, I think you may have been there either Friday or Sat morning. This same poem writer was there on Sat PM too. I took about 700 shots that day. As I passed him, he smiled at me and I'm thinking he knew what I was up to. I think it's great he wrote a poem for you!
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 02/22/2011 09:33:33 PM
Love that it did so well.
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 02/22/2011 08:05:04 PM
This is so sweet/ingenuous. And the poem...
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 02/22/2011 07:22:46 PM
Not your usual! I'm surprised to find this one is yours. It was a 10 for me. Great street photography and an out of the ordinary feel-good element to it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/22/2011 05:44:03 PM
This is just BEGGING to be in b/w. What a marvelous, quirky, happy capture.
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 02/22/2011 04:55:43 PM
not voting, but I love everything about this shot. I can't stop looking and smiling. The expression is fantastic.
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 02/22/2011 06:54:23 AM
:)
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 02/19/2011 02:15:49 PM
Very nice expression on the man's face... sure he loves what he is doing!
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 02/19/2011 01:10:05 AM
Love this, I want to know his story - living the dream.
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 02/18/2011 10:31:14 PM
Nice image. Personally i feel the bokeh is way too much for such a challenge as it takes that street feel off. i like the colors and the crispness in this
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 02/16/2011 05:23:40 PM
I really enjoy that you can see from the look on his face how much he enjoys what he does.
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 02/16/2011 07:33:02 AM
:)! Awesome!!
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 02/15/2011 07:59:35 PM
Nice dof.
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 02/15/2011 07:29:06 PM
After looking through all of the images this one really stands out to me. I love the emotion you were able to capture in this image. One of the top contenders for sure.
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