Photographic Coincidences

I am fully convinced that a coincidence can happen when you truly want it to happen.

Back on the first warm day of 2007, I was out, shooting some graffitis, tags and torn posters in Spanish Harlem. To be more precise, I was focusing on very small details of graffitis, tags, and torn posters... With my macro lens mounted on my camera (mounted on my tripod), I was shooting low iso and close aperture to get the most details. I realized I looked weird, when a few passerbies asked me what I was shooting at, posted 2 inches from the wall.

Anyway, at one point, I decided to take a break, I sat on a stairway facing a yellow Kung Fu wall on the other side of the street. Interesting painting but that was it, there was no photographic interest at all to take a picture of it, "unless some guy in kimono had come to interact with the wall" I thought to myself... Well... He came!!! Again, this is New York, this is Spanish Harlem... HE CAME!!! I switched the macro lens for the wide angle, and shot!

Since then, how could I not believe in photographic coincidences?

Kung Fu © Hugo MARTIN - 2007

Camera: Nikon D70S

Lens: Nikon Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF

Post Processing: White Balance, Contrast, Brightness