I went up to the city on Saturday for some photos, and wasn't super happy with the results. For most of the day, it felt like I was fighting the light (hot and hard). Got a few shots of a pro-Egypt protest by Civic Center, then came back to Union Square.
The second time I saw the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition at SF Moma, I noted one really important fact: Here was a man who really, really, really loved to photograph picnics. So, picnics were weirdly in the back of my head all day, and I actually came upon some people having lunch at the corner of Union Square. Very happy with the composition, though I don't so much like the default presentation on Flickr (the image works best viewed larger).
Hey Brandon... I like your picnic shot much better than the one by HCB on the river bank with the boat in the bg! Much more relevant, at least where we live!
ReplyDeleteNice seeing you Saturday, too...
Well, I think there is a certain perfection of form captured in his picnics that I'm still working on. ;)
ReplyDeleteI really like this one too, particularly since I'm often standing at this corner of Union Square, expecting the random factors to align -- glad they did this time.