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Not perfect with cropping, if I had only moved the camera down a touch.. but this is a shot of this young generation.. smart phones and skateboards.

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Dragan M. Babovic 5 months ago

So cute.

Earl A. Jones 8 months ago

Hi Patricia! I missed this before! Great capture! I think you should do more street work! Talk to you soon!

Thor Thorsson 8 months ago

They seems surprised and astonished to be photographed. Not clear what they think about it.

Lewis Mizugai 8 months ago

Great capture! love it!

Qin 9 months ago

O! YESSSS GREAT EXPRESSION!!

George Doupas 9 months ago

Yes++ This is very nice and alive picture.....

Alex OBrien 9 months ago

One for the vaults.
Nice.

Patricia Sweeney appreciate it Alex.. what have you been up to? please email me...

Kim Ayres 9 months ago

Great to see this shot here, Pat :)

Patricia Sweeney thanks Kim... means a lot that you think so.

Patricia Sweeney Thanks Kim, it means a lot to me that you like it... and I'm so happy to have a publish here. Seems to get more difficult..

Patricia Sweeney thanks Kim.. It mean a lot to me that you like it. :-)

Kim Ayres 3 replies? - one thanks would have been enough :)

Patricia Sweeney I think that means 3 glasses of wine..LOL

Kim Ayres Cheers!

caucas 9 months ago

Well taken...

Patricia Sweeney thank you.

Milad Hamadi 9 months ago

Excellent

Patricia Sweeney thank you

sarah navabi 9 months ago

GOOD SHOT

Patricia Sweeney appreciate it!

Risquillo 9 months ago

Magnifica captura. Espontanea y natural!
Felicidades!

Patricia Sweeney thank you Risquillo

Koen Pieters 9 months ago

this composition/crop = unconstrained, spur of the moment, real, raw
neat composition/crop you regret not having achieved = portrait-like, posed, reducing reality factor , too neat for this.

love it

Patricia Sweeney thank you Koen. Your work impressed me greatly when I first joined 1x.. a big influence really.. thank you for your comments.

randi sofian sauri 9 months ago

nice BW.

Patricia Sweeney thank you..

Christoph Hessel 9 months ago

Wonderful Pat, a great work
Christoph

Patricia Sweeney Cristoph, it means much to me that you think so...:-))

Takami 9 months ago

Great work, Patricia. Regards, Harry

Patricia Sweeney thank you Harry..

Monica 9 months ago

Wonderful mimic.
I love it.

Patricia Sweeney thanks Monica, very much..

Rita LaVeck 9 months ago

Wow.. I really love this of these kids. What a great mood...

Patricia Sweeney thank you so much!

Fulya Fercan 9 months ago

Patricia Sweeney :-)

Anders Ångström 9 months ago

What a great picture. I love the candid expressions, the textures and the tones. Very well done!

Patricia Sweeney thanks so much Anders, nice to hear from you..

Codrin Lupei 9 months ago

A wonderful image Pat, really happy to see it published, I love it! Congrats!

Patricia Sweeney Thanks Codrin, means a lot to me you think so. I really am happy it's here..

Colmar Wocke 9 months ago

A wonderful study of the youth around us - interested, busy, indifferent, bored. Bravo!

Patricia Sweeney you said it! Great observation Colmar.. thank you..

Saad Salem Al Sheihk. 9 months ago

very fine street catch.

Patricia Sweeney thanks!

Monique 9 months ago

oh ,Pat....you definately should shot children more often!
wonderful photo!

Patricia Sweeney thank you Monique.. I am shooting more children.. my kid (the one NOT looking at the camera) is a constant subject, and his friends are really interesting.. I will be shooting more of them. I have a very old picture of my father as a kid growing up in NYC, he was about the same age, with his gang. It's priceless, they were all mugging for the camera. I will post it somewhere soon, and I'll let you know.. it's an amazing pic.

Monique i hope that you will upolad it somewhere where i'll be able to see it :)..i just love old photographs..i can sit all day and watch old albums...soooo..i am waiting for this promised from you :)))

Patricia Sweeney you got it!!:-)

Farshad Davari 9 months ago

Great shot

Patricia Sweeney thanks Farshad!

Robert 9 months ago

Excellent scene Patricia! Congrats!

Patricia Sweeney thanks Robert! It's great to be on the FP again!

Richard Spurdens 9 months ago

Works for me the range of expression are great

Patricia Sweeney thank you.. the expressions are very telling..

juliopohl 9 months ago

great "look".

Patricia Sweeney thanks!

Petra Visser 9 months ago

I forgive you the cropping that's not a big deal. Great moment. The looks of the boys tells so much, a bit tired, full of concentration on the phones and wondered that you are taking a picture.... Great sharing this with us

Patricia Sweeney thank you! the pleasure is all mine..

Jacob Tuinenga 9 months ago

Beautiful shot with the facial expression of the kids.
Times changed, the skateboards make place for the smart phones.

Patricia Sweeney thank you so much.. they are an interesting, complex group...

Claudio Pio 9 months ago

I apologize to you for Piles inadvertently copied his comment, I have a mess in the copy and paste. Sincerely.

Voodoo Piles It wasn't a problem Claudio....made me smile more than anything :-)

Claudio Pio 9 months ago

I think I'm my own worst critic when it comes to spotting potential flaws in my own pictures but when I sit back and think about it street photography is all about filling a frame as it happens so anything incidental is beyond my control and sometimes it's the little bits that make you think more and end up filling in the finer details. I'm waffling now and even beginning to confuse myself but I think I know what I mean .....at first it's just four kids with phones but then as you look more you see the skateboard and then glance back and see a potential tiredness in there faces and the wheels explain why...and then there's the eye contact. I'll shut up now because I guess you knew this already and it's just dandy as it is :-)

Voodoo Piles Sounds familiar ;-)

Claudio Pio 9 months ago

The photographs of street need not be perfect, indeed. The big picture of us have left qst important secret and it is this concept that might seem trivial, to make special, unique and brilliant photographs of this kind. Add my thoughts to all, the simplicity of the action is captured better as you can see from the photographic world, with errors, gradient, crop, forced shots, shake, etc.. I have learned over the years to look 'beyond' and I often found myself observing masterpieces. Yours is a picture that touches the soul. Sincerely and with sympathy

Patricia Sweeney wow, thank you so much, I am humbled by your response, and thanks for the vote of confidence! P

Voodoo Piles 9 months ago

Patricia Sweeney thanks, I love your response..!

Phyllis Clarke 9 months ago

Pat - From the thumbnail with no identifying data I knew this was NYC...for a moment I thought Brooklyn..Park slope when I opened it I saw the tall buildings. I like the photo exactly as it is! The kids all look interesting in one way or another..and I am surprised they all have long hair. When you are from NYC you understand the magnitude and the importance of the STOOP. :) Congratulations..I love this shot. Phyllis

Koen Pieters love that word stoop :) . don't think it's still used that often in english, is it?
In Belgium we often use the derivative "stoep" (pronounced the same way)

Phyllis Clarke Interesting observation Peter. Some things we just take for granted. My husband (English) never heard of it used that way until he lived with me in NYC. I think it comes from the Dutch Stoep - and from Low Middle German which I see on line spelled as you wrote it. The Dutch of course were some of the first settlers in NYC. Pat's picture is not what I would call a typical stoop if there is such a thing. Usually it is a flight of stairs outside connected to a house. It was for me a major part of my teenage life in NYC - a place where friends met to congregate and talk, listen to doo-wop..meet the boys and all the rest. So when I see Pat's picture here - the kids need a place to just sit down and hang out, and they found it. My husband tells me it is an American thing..but maybe it is really a NYC thing. Culture is so much a part of photography I think...In NYC - life takes place on the stoop.....and Pat has really caught that here.

Patricia Sweeney Hi Phyllis! It's in Tribeca, my son and his friends were hanging out, skateboarding, and constantly texting.This was a moment of repose, if you can call it that.. and the long hair, no self respecting 11 year old in NYC has short hair! So glad you like it!