Recently a guerrilla artist put these umbrellas up in the trees. They were taken down by the city. The rain would make the umbrellas pull down the limbs and the coral trees on San Vicente Blvd. (one of the great avenues of the world) would be damaged.
Urban landscapes. Taken from a rooftop. 
Note the husband cheering on his wife; the wife raising her hands, acknowledging his support, two to three miles from the finish. Very touching. This was my first crop. I went back to it the next day and reconsidered as my subject is lost with the other runners.
A second crop shows the subject more highlighted.
But I still wasn’t satisfied. Then I tried a vertical crop. This becomes an intimate portrayal. I think this one works the best.
Lesson: Whenever you see a photo, especially by the pros, remember that they have often been composed using cropping and other things to make the image more dramatic. Now, just for fun, here’s the original image. Sometimes, the story is within the frame but you just have to draw it out.
This is what happens when I go out on the town.
Working with high shutter speeds, panning with the subject, high-speed continuous, and maybe you get something. I think they call this street photography.
I got out of the house today and look what I saw. In the third shot, I left the leaf on the street in the photo. I’ve seen so many shots by famous photographers with things on the ground, that galleries charge thousands for per shot, so I figure, maybe I’ll leave things alone and some of that commercial magic will rub off on me. Who knows? Survey: Leave the leaf in or take the leaf out?
