I don’t have a perfect representation of the people that inhabit or visit NYC. These are only those the images I felt I could get away with undetected. Except for the girls in Little Italy that posed for me while I was trying to get a street scene. We laughed about it after, how the street was better looking with them in it. Which was true.
NYC is filled with such facinating people. I wish I was braver and could walk up to those interesting faces and ask if I could take their picture. Maybe I’ll grow into that someday.
Each of the images in this slideshow has a story. I could tell you what they were…but it’s probably more fun if you make up some stories on your own.
Change Is Hard 
July 23, 2016 at 11:23 am
Fascinating, and yes, I love the idea of making up stories for the people you photographed!
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July 24, 2016 at 12:52 pm
I like making up stories based on pictures as well. Though some of the stories that were really happening when I took these are pretty good.
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July 23, 2016 at 11:41 am
Fabulous photos and I have to tell you NYC is one of my favorite cities on the planet. I am a rather loud person (I laugh too loudly and talk to loudly) and that is the ONLY place where I fit right in. Both of my parents were from Brooklyn and I was born on Long Island 🙂 DakotasDen
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July 24, 2016 at 12:53 pm
LOL. I know when I used to talk to New Yorkers on the phone while at work my ears would ring! And the overall noise factor in NYC was sort of overwhelming to me, a person who likes to camp in the woods. It is NEVER quiet there! NEVER!
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July 23, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Such great pictures. My favourite is the one of the woman on the balcony taking a selfie. Caught! I’ve never been to NYC but will go soon.
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July 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm
I hope you get there soon! The woman on the balcony was taking shots of her street as the sun was going down. The buildings were glowing. The light was magical. I guess she wanted a shot of herself in all that glow!
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July 23, 2016 at 3:57 pm
I know lots of people who like to take “street photos.” People are more okay with it than you might think. I’d say go for it!
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July 24, 2016 at 12:55 pm
I mean, after all, all they can do is say no…right? It’s still scary though. There were just so many really great faces…
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July 23, 2016 at 4:14 pm
Diversity at it’s finest! There’s no place like NYC.
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July 24, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Certainly no place like it, that’s for sure. It’s exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time.
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July 24, 2016 at 4:07 pm
It is exhausting. Jeff and I were saying it’s going to take us 5 years to recover from our last trip before we can get the energy to go back again.
Too much bustle for us. My mom goes at least once a month, and often twice a month. She just loves it, but she grew up in Philly, and I think she’s always missed the city life.
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July 24, 2016 at 8:24 am
These are terrific. They remind me of the street photography Babs Young did in Havana (also terrific).
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July 24, 2016 at 12:56 pm
Someday I hope to get there too. Street photography is interesting, but a little (ok a lot) intimidating to me.
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July 24, 2016 at 9:46 am
Great shots- love all your captures of NYC
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July 24, 2016 at 12:57 pm
Thank you. It’s a fun city to be in for awhile. Also fun to try to portray it’s uniqueness.
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July 24, 2016 at 11:53 am
These are WONDERFUL! People may be even more of your forte than nature. You have a great eye.
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July 24, 2016 at 12:58 pm
I’d like people to become my forte. Hard though when you’re essentially shy. Interestingly when you carry a big camera most people think you have some sort of right to be there taking pictures. And when you carry a small camera you can get shots without people noticing. So…there’s more than one way to approach the whole issue.
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July 25, 2016 at 7:33 am
What a fun post! I think you did a great job capturing a great variety of people. They make special lenses or attachments for lenses for getting surreptitious shots. I’ve seen them on the Photojojo web site and considered trying them.
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July 25, 2016 at 2:57 pm
That sounds interesting!
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February 18, 2017 at 8:26 pm
These photos are wonderful, Dawn! I am more of a take-it-from-behind people photographer. I have asked people if I could take their picture, but then they pose……. This was a fun slide show and I loved making up my own stories, too.
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February 18, 2017 at 9:08 pm
Glad you enjoyed!
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September 12, 2021 at 3:19 pm
Thank you for sharing your photos – and here I thought you were so talented at nature photos, you can do street photography well too!
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