Maikel de BakkerStreet Photography — “The Reader”
There I was, standing quietly in the shadow, my camera ready. Across the street, people moved like they always do — eyes fixed on glowing screens, thumbs scrolling endlessly from one three-second clip to the next. But then she appeared.
No phone. No earbuds. Just… a book.
That strange, clunky object made of paper, filled with words and stories — a relic from another time.
As she walked past an abandoned, graffiti-covered house, lost in her own world of ink and imagination, the scene unfolded like a paradox of past and present.
The forgotten building, the fading posters, the sharp sunlight cutting through the dust — and in the middle of it all, someone who remembered how to be still.
Shot with the Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 100-400mm lens — proof that sometimes, the most remarkable street scenes are the quietest ones.
Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.
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There I was, standing quietly in the shadow, my camera ready. Across the street, people moved like they always do — eyes fixed on glowing screens, thumbs scrolling endlessly from one three-second clip to the next. But then she appeared.
No phone. No earbuds. Just… a book.
That strange, clunky object made of paper, filled with words and stories — a relic from another time.
As she walked past an abandoned, graffiti-covered house, lost in her own world of ink and imagination, the scene unfolded like a paradox of past and present.
The forgotten building, the fading posters, the sharp sunlight cutting through the dust — and in the middle of it all, someone who remembered how to be still.
Shot with the Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 100-400mm lens — proof that sometimes, the most remarkable street scenes are the quietest ones.
Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.
#StreetPhotography #TheReader #UrbanObservation #Tilburg #DutchStreets #EverydayLife #VisualStorytelling #CandidMoments #DocumentaryPhotography #PhotographyObservation #StreetScene #HumanBehavior #UrbanDecay #CityContrast #StreetLightAndShadow #Sigma100400 #Canon5DMarkIV #CandidShot #UrbanMood #QuietMoments #StreetPerspective #StreetLife #StoryInLight #RealLifeMoments #StreetComposition #ShadowPlay #UrbanTexture #StreetArtAndLife #CapturingMoments #ObservationalPhotography #RealWorldScenes #BookLover #AnalogSoul #LostInAStory #AgainstTheFlow #VisualAnthropology #LightStudy #CityWatching #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography
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