streetdog's photostream

Streets, the initial frontier.
These are the voyages of the photographer Streetdog.
His lifelong mission: to explore surrounding districts,
to seek out new fashion and new postures,
to vigilantly walk where anyone could have walked before!



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Update (13Apr'06):
If you like street and people photography, you are all invited to join my newly created group, Friends in Public.



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Update (19Aug'06)

After posting the kind of photos I have here for a few months , I think I have finally got something to say about my photos.

These photos here within this flickr account is only one kind of photos among many different kinds that I normally shoot. Snapshots of people has always been special to me in that they add some substance, or stories if you will, to the photos that landscapes or other kind of static shots lack. The kind of cropping of my photos here are intended to show what a person or persons are doing, their body languages, facial expressions, gestures or interactions between two or more people, as a whole.

These photos, being shot in open streets or other public indoor areas, may include a vase diversity of different kinds of people. Some pretty some not, some men some women, some kids some elderlies, some rich some poor, and some well dressed some shabby dressed. It is with this kind of diversity that some of my photos may contain many different parts or crops that could also be passed as many types of fashion or even fetish photos. However, I believe that the kind of framing and/or cropping I have with my photos here should convey the "snapshot" type quite obviously.

This is not to say that I don't like or don't condone the fashion or fetish kind of photos. As a matter of fact, I have shot many fashion shows where I would concentrate on the garment itself and quite often in doing so, I feel the need to crop out part of the head of the model or even the entire head depends on the dress itself at the time. However, these are not the type of photos that I wanted to post here.

What I want to say is, these photos of mine here are intended to be viewed as a whole as they are framed or cropped, and not just the individual or the sum of their pretty parts. And quite often, the background may contain even more interesting elements than the foreground or the obvious subject. This is precisely the fun of snapshots and why I feel they deserve a special dedicated flickr account.

Hope I didn't bore you all too much. :-)

Happy shooting.

Cheers.