My guiding philosophy is the “decisive moment”. I was at a light and captured this in a Bronx second. Colors are as is, out of the camera.

Thanks Judith! It might be my favorite capture of this year. My most known work is in the milieu of music photography, however, these kind of unexpected slices of life where I'm in the right place at the right exact time, are perhaps even more gratifying to me!

Hi Ken, thank you very much! I should have referenced Hopper as I too had that feeling when i transferred the image to my computer and was quite amused at that serendipity. And I contemplated whether my visit to the comprehensive exhibition of his work at the Whitney last year, had imbued my soul so deeply that I was drawn to this scene. Two things about that. One is that this was truly a fly by, drive by shooting! I was happy that I had my Fuji mirrorless in the front with me after having shot a music festival nearby. I had just a minute to grab the camera, focus and shoot. No, is the answer to presets. I've never utilized those options. I actually leave my camera on the T setting and adjust quickly and accordingly.

The second thing is that the day I was walking from the subway to the Whitney, I shot some street scenes and even before seeing the exhibition, there was one image I shot in particular in the Meat Packing district, that also evoked Hopper, pure magic!!!

Thanks very much.

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Yes agree, as I have mastered certain tools to enhance or create a new (not necessarily improved) take on an image such as this one attached of Dizzy Gillespie, utilizing Nik Collection filters and more recently Neural filters. But I wanted to highlight how this image, because of the texture and colors of the scene, looks painterly, and clarify, since one of my long time mediums, way, way before Photoshop existed, was hand painting with photo oils, that it is was not altered in PS!