Cuban Street Photography

As some of you may know (!) I recently went on holiday to Cuba; a place my boyfriend and I have always wanted to go to for a whole myriad of reasons, not least for the cars they drive around which make for amazing photo ops (said photos will be on a later post)! I also really love street photography and there is no shortage of that over there either. So guess what this blogpost is about (if the blog title didn't give it away that is)??

LOVE this one!

  

What I love about these two bits of street art is that they are 'tributes' to the people that led them, the revolution and to Fidel and Raul who still lead them to this day, at least for the time being. Can you imagine anyone doing it in England to pay tribute to David Cameron?! I think not!

Viva Cuba! Couldn't have put it better myself AND it's got one of those classic cars in it!

I think this image depicts the feeling of many around the whole world at the moment. Cuba is a country steeped in history and it's so so interesting. Very different to anywhere I have been before for many different reasons and I am so, so pleased I managed to get there before Fidel dies, as does the revolution with him. :( 

Portraits!

I'll be honest, I am not massively confident with portraits. Give me a point and shoot camera at a party and I'll happily snap away but I suppose much like people being put off by seeing an SLR thrust upon them, I am equally put off at the doing the thrusting of said SLR! I'm much more comfortable in my own little bubble, doing my own little thing! Anyway, you never get anywhere if you don't take yourself out of your comfort zone. As my mum says, face the fear and do it anyway!





 Here are some attempts at me doing portraits about a year ago, be warned, they are not at all good! I always felt like I didn't know how to direct my subjects or get the angles I wanted but have been practising and have learnt a lot so I think you'll be able to see the improvement with my most recent shots!

And here are some of my more recent shots. Would love to hear your thoughts!

More Street Photography

This is the last set of images (I think!) from my Street Art workshop in East London. I did take A LOT of photos that day and there are only a handful left from the final cut but I really enjoyed doing this mini project. Not only did I go and see some of my (fairly) local surroundings but it's definitely given me a lot of food for thought for future projects. Hope you enjoy the last in this set!

 

This one above is probably one of my favourites out of this set. I know it doesn't actually contain any street art but I love anything to do with reflections. And I like how I have only got their faces in the shot through the reflection in the puddle. Just me maybe but I like it!

And I really like this one too because even now when I look at it, the art on the wall is just kind of jumping out from the wall. Brilliant art work in my opinion. I just took the photo!

Street Photography Part Deux!

A few more from afternoon out in East London. Nuff said!

I have no idea who this guy was but it was like he wanted me to take his picture. So I did, great backdrop if you ask me.

Once it started, it didn't stop raining and I liked watching the drops ripple in the puddles.

Lines and lines and lines and lines!