Eastbound

Che dire? Vorrei averla fatta io!

You don't have to say anything! :D And you can still do it yourself!

Is that a sun setting I see in the distance? (just kidding!!) this is so wonderful. your composition brings such power to the scene.

I'm so happy you brought this one out (from 2014) for us to see. I really struggle with having to convert digital photos to b&w. I probably just need to do it more, but I continue to be irritated that I even have to do a conversion. I grew up with b&w film... Your contrast and detail retainment is very professional and artistic (but you already knew that).

And now you see that I have a group 'L’instant décisif — Henri Cartier-Bresson' - and I would love to have this photo of your there - if you want.

No, it is not sun, but a twin Neowise hurtling down towards our unsuspecting hero on the street.

You don't neccessarily need to convert pictures, do you? You just switch on jpeg and b&w mode in your camera, and off you go! Of course if you really, really want to concentrate on the hues and all that ilk, then you need to go raw and do the conversion, but even if you do, it is a LOT easier than developing film and printing the paper copies in the darkroom.

The only unfavorable thing about digital photography is that nothing prevents you from taking a gazillion photos each and every day. THEN it gets tedious no matter what you do with them.

ha ha!
oh i so wish i could see Neowise. i don't have the right vantage point, the horizon is always obscured from our area - too many hills (not a thing i usually complain about).

i always take photos in raw when i can. and i don't like the digital camera's b&w conversion anyway. but i think printing in the darkroom is way easier than the digital workflow of processing my photos! but like i said, i grew up doing it.

I grew up in the darkroom as well (not literally, though!), but I still see digital manipulation way, way easier. Perhaps my darkroom conditions were a tad underwhelming, then.

Beautiful streetscape.
Have a nice and sunny weekend.

very nice

Lovely panoramic. But...what is a Neowise, twin or otherwise, when is at home?

I first read, "Lovely pandemic." One sees what one´s used to. But you obviously haven't seen Neowise the comet! Well, not me either, or rather, I saw it but didn't know I did. it is/was too faint in our latitudes. Rockbands and comets seldom come our way.

one man, looking apart from the others...
in a lane of light and knowledge...
just superb and allegoric

Thank you, Christel. In your mind, on an impulse, do you see him as a good or bad guy, or is he just sort of neutrally different?

That's really great

Great BW, mood... and comment!

une photo où le spectateur n' est pas neutre. Il se pose une question en voyant l' homme traverser. Une très belle atmosphère.

Thank you, Nautilus. I bet that question varies from viewer to viewer.

Je ne peux pas dire mieux que Nautilus. Une bien belle photo.

Thank you, Jean-luc!

Excellent shot!
Looks like the Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki.... :)

Aleksanterinkatu it is, the main shopping street in Finland – or at least it was before all these shopping malls rose to the outskirts of every city.

I had been there several times. Last time in 2011. Yes, I guess a lot has changed since then.....

Helsinki has gotten about five new malls since then, so that now people are afraid that the city center withers. Covid doesn't help either; Stockmann, the biggest store in Aleksanterinkatu, was just put into debt restructuring.

Yes, that is the fate of many inner cities. And there is also a standardization of the city centers with always the same chains of stores. That is very regrettable.
Stockmann – what a pity! Once it was a very nice store with a wonderful patio!

Beautiful mood, light, subject.
My eye is a bit hungry for a bit more on the upper half of the photo though.
I promise it won't distract from the walking subject in the middle because it is so strong.

You mean cropping? Or another superman flying in the sky with his shopping bags?

Please no cropping no! Just a little more view on the upper half so we see more of the buildings.
It might emphasize the walker with the backlight.
I wouldn't add a superman with shopping bags. Perhaps a ufo trying to beam up the walker..?
Nah! just kidding.

There were lots of disturbing elements hanging on the walls of buildings; neon-signs, wallflowers, spidermen and other wall-creepers.

Oh, eine Straße im Stadtzentrum und kein Fußgängerüberweg / Zebrastreifen zu sehen!
Folgende Straße ist zumindest entsprechend beschildert:
www.ipernity.com/doc/spo/35023301

The zebra patterns of the crossroads are painted there all right, but the street is so wet that they are hard to see. The closest one is at the very bottom of the image. But you are right, there are no signs for crossroads. That may be because passenger car traffic is prohibited on the street; only taxis, trams and service traffic are allowed there.

Aha, die zuständige Verkehrsbehörde glaubt:
Berufskraftfahrer brauchen keine Verkehrsschilder. Die Profis fahren auch ohne Verkehrschilder vorbildlich?
Nun ja, im meinen Wohnort hatte das mit der exakten Beschilderung vor Jahren auch nur auf Privatgelände geklappt:
www.ipernity.com/doc/2016556/48708014

Nun ja, folgende Beschilderung ist vorbildlich:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Kaulsdorfer_Str_Kaulsdorf_2011-04-22_AMA_fec.JPG

My Norwegian colleagues remarked 20 yrs ago that traffic in Helsinki was a bit like in Russia, with pedestrians moving at their own risk. My experience is that it has changed for the better since. What is comes to Aleksanterinkatu, it is practically a pedestrian zone where you only need to mind the trams, so people tend to cross the street wherever they please. When I took this picture I had to wait for quite a while to get only this one guy on the street.

... und hast am optimalen Zeitpunkt geknipst.