“color 2010 #1979,” by John Sypal.

We’ve posted on Sypal before, and even if you didn’t see that, you probably already know him via Tokyo Camera Style.

One of the things that makes good street photography worth looking at is its ability to let us stop and examine, or just appreciate, momentary nuances of gesture and posture.

In how we hold ourselves and how we move, we are always presenting, describing, and announcing ourselves to the world, and that process always has both an intended and an unintended component.

It’s the sort of information we are always unconsciously collecting and analyzing as we walk down a street or interact with acquaintances…in that process, even the most eloquent gestures tend to only momentarily impinge on our conscious awareness. In a photograph, it is a different matter.

Still, there is a limit to what one can deduce through the seemingly clear window a photograph offers. I would very much love to see the next step that woman takes, and the next step that man takes. I would like a better chance at determining what is intended and unintended in the way they were moving at that particular time and place.