As noted over on the Ricoh street thread, I spent a couple of days in Altantic City earlier this week (when the heat was merely oppressive, before it turned deadly) and did a LOT of shooting along the boardwalk. Jeez, if America is a melting pot, places like AC and Vegas must be the burnt residue that never quite comes out of the pot. Fascinating place - I can't say I like it but to say I'm fascinated by it is a huge understatement. Such a weird combination of rich and poor feeding off of the gambling culture and the fact that its also a very poor city in the midst of all of this and throw in an old beach resort community with a decidedly middle 20th century feel and you get quite a lot going on. Between really well off folks coming for the casinos, middle class folks from Philly and NYC coming down for the beaches and casinos, some of the locals hanging out and some panhandling and others just working menial jobs (like pushing the seeming millions of taxi "carts" up and down the boardwalk), foreign visitors checking it out and getting some sort of warped impression of the US, its all a bit overwhelming. I took a lot of shots, some with the GRD3, a few with the X100. As much as I love the X100 for some stuff, I'm just more comfortable shooting with a small camera without a viewfinder for this kind of work. When conditions allow of course. It can't compete with the X100 for IQ, but for this kind of shooting, IQ isn't the priority. Some of the shots are flattering to the subjects, many are far from it, but its how I saw it...
Here's a flickr set for anyone who wants to see the whole bunch of them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/sets/72157627132656501/
And here are a few X100 shots. There's a lot more Ricoh stuff, so check out that thread or the Flickr stream if interested in any more...
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And one that's a bit less gritty - not street at all, but what the hell - if you ride or walk down the boardwalk all the way to the south end, its a completely different environment - nice little beach town down there...
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-Ray