Michael Hart Fine Art
Still Kickin'
Still Kickin'
A Saturday morning walk through Hyde Park in London (with camera bag, of course) had me pointing my lens at all sorts of things. From people haranguing passersby at Speaker’s Corner to a favorite image of a couple (well, we don’t know for sure they were a couple, but it was a man and a woman) engrossed in their papers on a bench, with beautiful, soft light streaming down on them from above and behind. You can find it in the color galleries.
But perhaps my favorite is this shot of an amateur group of footballers, captured in all manner of postures and action poses, frozen in time. The lone outstretched hand, appearing from seemingly nowhere on the left side of the frame, adds a touch of whimsy. I like to think that Elliott Erwitt would be proud of my "snap," as the Brits would call it. The morning overcast made the decision to go black and white an easy one.
This photograph can be found in the book The World’s Greatest Black and White Photography, Volume 1, a collection from the first three years of The International Black and White Spider Awards, where it was featured in one of their earliest competitions.