Street photos: What will make them last?

I think most of us street shooters likes the idea that we are doing something important: documenting the present urban life for the future. But how will we know which images are going to last? We all know that composition, light handling etc. is important to any image, but even a perfect photo could turn…

A guy, a lamp post and three contrails

I had just arrived down town when I saw the three contrails in the sky – perfectly converging towards some distant place. Since I knew the probably would vaporise soon, I went looking for some nice angles to make a shot of them. And I looked, and looked, (power walking) while they slowly drifted away…