Layers - Lunchtime

It's a gorgeous day in the city today. There was a buzz in the air the Outdoor Warning System's weekly test sounded the arrival of the lunch hour.

 

I was fortunate enough to have some free time on this trip and got out to walk around and to enjoy the warm sunshine and flow of pedestrian traffic in the Financial District.

 

I've been taking fewer street shots lately as I experiment and play with landscape photography (not terribly well, I admit). Today's lunch hour showed me and reminded me of everything I love about street photography: being out in the world, seeing what's happening for the thousands of people I pass by, identifying something fun, different or pleasing to the eye and capturing it just as the players in my imagined scene are in the correct position, looking the correct direction, on their marks as I envision them.

 

This image might have worked in color, but I was concerned that the reds of the planted flowers and of the Wells Fargo sign and the bright greens of the shrubs would distract the viewer from the people in the shot.

Done