The Weekly Street Photography Thread #4 11/04/2025

The Weekly Street Photography Thread
Welcome to the street photography weekly thread. We start it on Fridays. We are hoping to get your images and hear what other members think about them.
It is open to all members of the forum; members can post a single image or a selection of images on a theme in a single post. Multiple posts are allowed.
What constitutes street photography has always been debatable. There are several opinions about it, and we do not want to restrict participants. You can post whatever you deem fits into the genre; however, please be prepared to hear criticism as well.

Guidelines:
1. We aim to increase the popularity of street photography and encourage our fellow photographers to be more interested in the genre.
2. Give your photo a title and include any other information you think is relevant. I personally love to know why you made this photo, what attracted you to make it, and why you like it. But this is NOT MANDATORY.
3. A single image or a theme-based group of images are allowed. No multiple posts, please.
4. If you post an image, that means you are ready to hear feedback.
5. We want to hear your thoughts about others’ posts.
6. Please keep all posts civilised and polite.
7. Unless specifically stated otherwise by the original poster, please do not modify the images.

Street Portrait of Uncle John. He is an American who was visiting London. He was kind enough to accept being my model.

The little town of Rolling Fork in the Mississippi Delta has a festival every fall called the Great Delta Bear Festival honoring Teddy Roosevelt, who came there to hunt bear, couldn't find any, then refused to shoot the little bear a local brought to him tied up with a rope. From that refusal the opposing political party derided Roosevelt for being softhearted, and from the derision, the Teddy bear was invented: a soft stuffed bear that commemorated the supposed weakness of the President. Rolling Fork was home to Muddy Waters and other famous blues musicians, a Civil War battle, an array of ancient Native American earthworks, and a destructive tornado that wiped 75% of the town out 3 years ago. One of the things I like about the festival is that everyone who enters has to sign a detailed photo model release, so there's no worries about whether it's OK to take pictures of anyone.

Almost a self-portrait 😀
Do you use the camera crop modes for this kind of portraits?

A curious story, that of Teddy Bear.
And a good example of the event's festive and diverse atmosphere...

I tried some more focused crops on the protagonists, but in the end I decided to leave the scene complete…
Good menu.

The Queue.
Florence

Holy Week in Mykonos

Arriving by evening ferry we found the route to our hotel unexpectedly complicated by local folks sprucing up the streets for the beginning of the new tourist season. Wheeling suitcases along greek village alleys while avoiding wet paint was a challenge! Early next morning I went in search of photo subjects...

The wider scene is definitely way to go. Context is everything here.

SL.

This beauty appeared unexpectedly and I couldn't properly adjust the shooting parameters to panning properly, so it required a bit of extra editing work...