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Like a hard-boiled detective combing the streets of London, searching for ephemeral elegance in a era of grittiness, captivated by the serendipitous nature of the urban environment; I'm inspired by surreal and dreamlike photography, high contrast black and white, film noir, and vintage New York colour photography. For me street photography is an attempt to describe the space where the frenetic pace of urban life intersects with a meditative surreality, the moment life hangs on an instant and the chaos of the city melts away...
(All these images were created using apple computers and are calibrated for desktop cinema displays and iMacs; they are also developed to look better on today's more common glossy screens)
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- Ridley Road 115 photos, 21 members
- London Street Photography Metro Competition 7,378 photos, 1,129 members
- London Architecture 8,501 photos, 467 members
- King's Cross 1,326 photos, 145 members
- Shop windows,windows 2,346 photos, 123 members
- After Dark - Night Photography 348,707 photos, 25,772 members
- B&W: Dark Side Of The City / N&B: Le Cote Obscur De La Ville 16,168 photos, 833 members
- dark london 106 photos, 19 members
- Paris B&W (rules apply) 44,490 photos, 8,011 members
- Paris 245,950 photos, 26,768 members
- iconic image 5,471 photos, 271 members
- Borough Market 3,785 photos, 672 members
- Hackney 13,038 photos, 938 members
- Dalston 331 photos, 26 members
- Film Noir Mood 6,825 photos, 9,935 members
- La Nouvelle Révolution Surrealiste 22,512 photos, 1,369 members
- Street B&W shots 32,171 photos, 1,879 members
- Camden 12,817 photos, 1,408 members
- London by Londoners 186,113 photos, 7,246 members
- Paris, 18e arrondissement (75018) 5,260 photos, 457 members
- PARIS 18 281 photos, 37 members
- Paris street photography - photos de rues 3,797 photos, 2,143 members
- Decisive Moment 71,506 photos, 16,756 members
- Voigtlander on micro 4/3rds 1,050 photos, 58 members
- Cosina Voigtlander Nokton 50/1.1 8,239 photos, 727 members
- Micro Four Thirds (Micro 4/3) 122,628 photos, 4,924 members
- Micro Four Thirds Community 133,638 photos, 4,651 members
- Micro Four Thirds cameras using alternative & legacy lenses 32,631 photos, 2,006 members
- Total bokeh portrait 11,145 photos, 855 members
- BOKEH creative photography 1,944 photos, 838 members
- Don't Be A Lemming 528 photos, 726 members
- Promenade....{ Street photography } 5,484 photos, 654 members
- "À la sauvette" (street candid photography in motion) 7,025 photos, 1,961 members
- *****Street Photography***** 184,205 photos, 7,016 members
- Cinematic Street Photography [VOTE NOW] 10,475 photos, 941 members
- Night Street Photography 8,890 photos, 1,165 members
- All Street Photography 97,266 photos, 2,670 members
- COLOUR STREET PORTRAITS 39,428 photos, 1,718 members
- RAW Street Photography 512,754 photos, 23,646 members
- Londoners Street Photography 12,571 photos, 1,307 members
- Streetphotography in Colors 11,315 photos, 402 members
- Tough Street Photography 4,271 photos, 596 members
- Extreme Street Photography (ESP) 4,958 photos, 14,787 members
- Chinatown London 139 photos, 31 members
- Covent Garden 2,089 photos, 533 members
- London Independent Photography 4,617 photos, 1,313 members
- London: Soho 651 photos, 219 members
- London-alt 105,871 photos, 9,745 members
- London 582,315 photos, 28,816 members
- London at Night 5,574 photos, 570 members
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- Name:
- Paulie
- Joined:
- April 2010
- Hometown:
- "Upstate London"
- Currently:
- London
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Website:
- http://www.last.fm/user/EchotheSun/