Spring St by Joe Holmes

Spring St by Joseph O. Holmes

Joe took this photo at the gallery last week. It was on his site and also on the always excellent Manhattan Users Guide on Friday (special bonus: it’s up through the weekend!)

Incidentally: do you subscribe to MUG? If you don’t yet, you should. Not only do you get one great Joe Holmes photo per day, you also get a wealth of NYC information, delivered with a minimum of pretension or breathless buzz. For example, their Framing Guide is a link I forward often.

Back to the photo, as I said in comments over on Joe’s site, I love this photo because it reminds me of why I love photography so much. Joe’s captured a mundane moment that I was in the midst of and made it into something beautiful, interesting and memorable. I’m always looking and taking stuff in, but a photographer’s unique ability to find that thing to capture is a thing I admire and adore.