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I made this colorfully compelling streetphoto from my perch on a bench
in Buzios, Brazil one afternoon two years ago while chatting with a couple of
fishermen using an urban lone tree to mend their nets at the shoreline. The beach boy
pulled up in his red beach buggy, hopped out, and unintentionally posed himself
for me at the Telemar phone booth. And so there it was -- everything in one
picture that a modern Atlantic shoreline has to offer. The antiquity of the
surviving fishing trade mixed in with the land-loving flow of the modern
non-fishing world. The hard work of fisher men, the easy play of a beach boy
caught in their net, backed by a couple of coastal guest houses for the
tourists.
Anyway, the only thing missing from the composition was the shoreline itself. So
on the following morning I rose with the fishermen, went to the same bench where
I'd made the first photograph, turned my camera around 180-degrees
toward the ocean, and made the second shot (below). And I thought you'd
enjoy seeing both perspectives -- the streets of Buzios and the streets of Armação Bay fishing village from the same spot 14 hours later.
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