In a post-pandemic world, just surviving feels like a balancing act that is doomed to failure, with cost of many goods more than double what they were in 2019, but salaries and income maybe a percentage point or two more than back then. But, that has little to do with photography, unless you do photography for a living, which, thankfully, I don’t.

Supermarkets are nice to shop in, if you can afford the added cost that usually accompanies many of the goods there, especially fresh produce, so many still visit the various public Market places, and if you’ve followed my Street Photography, you probably know I frequent Mon Repos market, and it usually makes for some good Street Photography. Fresh produce abounds along with many other stalls, and the variety in people and activity makes for a good walk with a camera almost any Saturday.

There are times when I come upon a scene, and while I can draw my own conclusions about what’s going on, its much more fun to elicit the views of others from the same image. While much of my Street Photography tends to be in black and white, some scenes demand to be left in colour, and I think this was one of them, this next photo was taken on a walk down Quamina Street (formerly Murray Street) in the Cummingsburg ward of Georgetown.

On the corner of Quamina Street and Waterloo Street, there’s an old house, right downstairs at that house is “Battery Man”, who purchases old, used batteries for their “lead” content. I got quite a suspicious look out of him when I walked by casing the place for a good photo. After taking the photo, I smiled and said “Good Day” and went on my merry way.

I think its just this type of variety of subjects that draws me to Street Photography when I’m not indulging in Landscape / Seascape photography. There’s life in the images, as well as stories that seem obvious, but also stories that others can infer for us.

As usual, click on the images to see them in the Gallery along with other images in the collection.