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Recently my wife and I drove to a couple of the larger cities in Connecticut (Hartford and New Haven to be exact). My goal was to get portraits of people I would see as I walked around the streets of those two fine cities. I have been using my Canon 135 f/2 lens exclusively in this endeavor. I have come to the conclusion that there are only two types of street portraits available to the budding street portrait photographer. The solicited portrait and the unsolicited portrait. I have done several of each. The following is from Hartford and represents the first time I have asked a stranger if they would allow me to take their photograph. This gentleman said he was a Reverend.
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this image was interpreted well by that fellow on Flickr…it seems like his face has both sides of humanity in it…sadness, and happiness together…like a living representaton of the symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia and Melpomene. Thalia was the Muse of comedy (the laughing face), while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy (the weeping face). A legendary street portrait, that few will ever be able to see in real life.
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