City Competition 4 - San Francisco : Entry Number 48

You see 'hipsters' standing aimlessly on the sidewalk staring into a phone everyday here in San Francisco. This image isn't just successful because it captures an essence of city life, but also because it shows the other elements in juxtaposition... the graffiti, the business turning over, the people in motion... it's all changing here... all in motion.

A couple times a year I get a chance to visit San Francisco and enjoy some street photography. In this case I was just being a tourist in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood when I noticed this store front and this guy standing almost like a statue, and the swirl of foot traffic around him. I was lucky enough to have a lamp post to lean against, so I dropped my shutter speed to 1/8 and I started clicking off a series of frames. This one worked. The camera was a Nikon D50 -Mark Rast