nice candid

Very cool candid capture! I never get tired of this style

An excellent street scene Tara.

street beautiful

HAHA! Everybody wins. A really fine streetshot Tara.

Well I LOVE it! What a delight!

I love the simplistic logic in your last statement there Tara, I am one of the not so fond of too much, so I am kind of middle ground :) This shot interests me from a perspective that the bike owner saw fit to have a good gel saddle, mud guards etc, but couldn't justify the expense of brakes? I like the expression on the lady here, one can clearly see she is aware of you, but chose to look upward with a wry smile.

Good street capture and choice of B&W

Sweet candid. Nothing wrong with street photography. Cartier-Bresson made a career out of it and become famous around the world. And he used a big box camera. There is something very familiar about the guy on the right walking away from you. You don't know him, do you?

Superb capture Tara. God bless.

I would have known it was New Orleans even if you hadn't said; there's something about that place that makes it like no other. Wonderful capture, the lady's expression is priceless!

I bbeen by that shop before. did not stop there but I know the area. Hope you ate the good foods that is local owned and not the chains. I been with someone before and they like the big chains to go and eat. i did take them to a local and they loved it . but old habits is hard to break and it broke my heart to see they did not like to taste the food of New Orleans. I remember food i ate there over at lest 20 years lol. that how good it was and it was a hole in the wall place.

What a perfect shot!! You do people shots so well!

You're too kind, Tara! LOL I love the lady walking along and looking up - a perfectly timed photo!

Street life.. Phone in hand, then....she drops it! I wish! Great candid. Rob

You've cropped it so there's space underneath the 'main' lady, and that gives her a kind of "floating" look. Too strong a word, but it gives her 'lift', which is good because she's look up and out of the image, and that gives her a special lift. Vertically, the shot is about pillars and vertical lines: compressed heavily on the left, and then thinning out on the right---a visual music that really resonates with me. And next to the woman's lighter grays, the men behind her (one of them Bill) have richer and darker grays and blacks. And in a fashion you've used in some of your other street shots, you've contrasted your rich blacks with very saturated, bright whites. It all makes a little symphony. And the bike's inclusion allows you to make the bike the 'final character', as if it's 'watching' the whole scene. But it also allows you to include the broad spaces between pillars on that side of the image: In contrast with the compressed spaces on the left. Given the formal music of the shot, the woman's upward gaze---totally out of shot (I mean she's LOOKING totally out of the shot)---breaks it open and sends the shot to places beyond the periphery...ie, to places beyond what's visible, places these people may have been, may be going, or just are observing. Glimpses into other worlds in the way that street shooting illuminates as few other styles do. Very musical and suggestive, and real street work, Tara. (And the black and white, as in this whole series, is right.)