On street photography | Sharing images of children | and the early stages of grand-parenting

NOTE TO VISITORS: Kathie and I will travel to Nelson tomorrow to meet our new grandson (name withheld). So my daily blog flow may be interrupted. To say we are excited is an understatement. Do not expect however images of you-don’t-know-who on this blog. It is too risky to share images of children online in any way at any time. BC Premier David Eby shared pictures of his children going off to school. Don’t do this David. Yes, I remember when our kids first ventured off our property towards lower education. With AI and sinister agents scurrying about these days, it just too dangerous.

As AI morphs into a fully autonomous super-omnipresence, well, watch your back, your front, and everywhere else. The only possible advantage of such super-heated self-interested, energised technology is that it might be able to take out Donald Trump and his gangsters. If you don’t believe me read this piece by Charlie Angus. It’s our version of the War of the Worlds.

Enough of all that. My blog today is actually a “focus” on street photography. In 34 Street Photos By Taylor Coble That Make Ordinary Scenes Feel Cinematic mixed-media artist and street photographer Taylor Coble avoids the clutter of busy streets and public spaces “isolating a person, gesture, reflection, or small detail and allowing the surrounding space to become part of the narrative.” How does he do this, you ask:

“Double exposures, reflections through glass, selective color, and layered imagery often merge people with their surroundings, while other pieces are further transformed through techniques such as etching and painting on printed photographs. Black-and-white imagery also plays a major role, emphasizing contrast, shape, texture, and the relationship between a solitary figure and the architecture surrounding them. Many of these photographs seem to offer only fragments of a larger story. A person crossing an empty space, someone seen through a window, or two overlapping moments can suggest loneliness, curiosity, tension, or introspection without spelling out exactly what is happening. By keeping the visual information relatively restrained, Coble leaves room for viewers to imagine what might exist beyond the frame.”

I find the images in the article spell-binding, likely because I try in my own way, with my own opportunities, to do something similar. My images are not the reportage of journalism or archival collection. I enjoy finding unique poses, often fragments of a much larger narrative that I enjoy looking at for my own pleasure. Call me weird — and some do. For the record, I paste some of my own work below. Let me know what you think.

Move through the images in each set using the arrow > keys.

Lima, Peru, 2014

Summerland events 2025-6

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