The Weekly Street Photography Thread #10 23/05/2025

The Weekly Street Photography Thread
Welcome to the street photography weekly thread.
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I’m very pleased with the DoF provided by the 28mm 1.7 lens at Blackfriars train station, even though I was quite far from the subject. It’s a heavily cropped photo.

Palermo

Fish Restaurant

From my walk home last night

Arte museum in Las Vegas last week, people mixed with reflections of themselves but also reflections of other people and projections of still others. Surreal but fun. Hard to tell what's real.

Eyes on the road young man..........

A busy junction. I liked the tilted frame and use of SS. I wish the bus was not there, though.

A nice fish restaurant. I have been there once, but I was not impressed with the fish. I think you needed a bit wider lens for this shot, but there are beautiful colours.

Nice clean images, your Pana serves you well in low light situations. I like the delivery driver shot more, these delivery drivers are same everywhere I guess.

A busy scene, it is almost an abstract take and an impressive result for a phone camera in this challenging lighting.

It does indeed. And that's not really the main reason I bought it to be perfectly honest. I'm very very happy with its performance none the less.

And yes, we visit Melbourne a bit when back in Australia, and that style of delivery service seems to have really taken off there as well. Electric bicycle's and scooters buzzing around in all directions on a Saturday night, delivering takeaway food. I can see where it originated now :)

A land of contrast

Get your buns steamed here :)

I am really curious about this place. You have documented it very well, perhaps a little bit of information will help to understand the place.

It's a small rural-ish city, in the Jilin province (a province is like a state in America or Australia) of Northern China. I had it explained to me that if you think of the map of China as a Rooster, Jilin is the eye of the Rooster :)
Spent a lot more time here this trip than intended, as I somehow picked up a DVT/blood clot on the flight over, so spent nearly 3 weeks immobilzed. And a couple of hospital visits. Big PITA.
The Wife has family here, we sort of base ourselves here and wander off in various directions. Domestically . Had to cancel that and spent our time relatively local. As we decided to heed Doctors advice and avoid air travel/sitting for lengthy periods for a month. We've done a fair bit of wandering about the place, touristy stuff like the Great Wall, Terracotta warriors etc, and some lesser known like the Thousand Buddha caves. And a couple of places of interest out in the Gobi desert.
The small city here basically services the farming sector, as far as I can tell. Predominantly growing Corn, Soybeans and a little bit of Rice.
I've been travelling over here since the early 2000's and the changes I've seen in that time have been big. In some ways. And not in others. It's fascinating to watch.
One small example

Some of the Wife's relatives are farmer's, so we tend to see both the city, and rural sides of life.
I thoroughly enjoy it, the people are friendly and curious in equal measure, the food is fantastic, so even though we had to cancel our planned internal travel plans, it's been no real hardship to spend some time here, and stroll about with a camera in hand :)

Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Same street corner, 13 years apart

These before/after shots are fascinating.

Mobile vege store

Old and Modern

Where is our waitress?

Prom Night

I’m so grateful for your messages. I find them very interesting, as I’ve witnessed similar changes in Turkey.

Nice contrast on the first shot, second one is amazing!

This is a lovely capture. Seeing the scene on the phone’s screen adds something to it, and the BW conversion has a very nice tonality.