RE: Before Bikes There Were Trikes

[frank theriault]

I LOVE the kid on the left, with his shoelaces untied!!  What a great 
detail!  For me, it just makes the shot so much more real than it otherwise 
would have been.  There's something about those "spontaneous pose" shots (I 
don't know if they have a name, but those photos where the subjects are 
posing, but they're not - where they clearly are reacting to the camera in 
an awkward "how should I look" way) that I love.

Back in the late 60's, long after I'd already graduated to a "two wheeler", 
Big Wheels were all the rage on my block.  Being far too old for them, I 
naturally looked down upon them.  Who'd have guessed back then that I might 
be making my living riding a bike.  <vbg>

But enough about me.  Another outstanding piece of Street Photography, Shel. 
 What a great document of that time and place this is turning out to be!

cheers,
frank


"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.  The pessimist 
fears it is true."  -J. Robert Oppenheimer




From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Before Bikes There Were Trikes
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:23:10 -0800
Another work in progress from 1969.  More neighborhood kids.

http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/trike.html
(195K JPEG)
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