Watching ‘A Day of Street Photography With Eduardo Ortiz’ on YouTube was inspiring. Ortiz talks about how he layers his photos from the background forward, looking for scenes of daily life. And so that the photo can be read by the viewer, he looks for an anchor (a person separated from the background) who is not moving, or two or three such people – and then all the layers of complexity around that.
So full of remorse for my not having learned a damn thing about photography despite… I looked at one album and found these.
I missed layers I could have captured if I had had layers top of mind. So this is a gentle kick in my own pants to get moving.
This last one says something about daily life, without a person in the photo at all.
One ceremony has ended and the remains of it can be seen. And here is what will be needed for the next ceremony.
Behind is the trickle of the Bagmati River that five years after I took this photo, burst its banks and flooded Kathmandu.
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