The Cityscapes

Of everyday life.
Sometimes I wished I understood this earlier. That is it rude to take real pictures or real people doing real things. But somehow, it just violates their intimact, doesn't it. When I was in Bolivia, we just took pictures of landscapes because it was different. When the bus stopped, we just go out and lined-up to photograph the sunset. There was no sunset actually, it just sounds nice. But we were like, 14 or so, without artistic sensitivity. Maybe 'the daily' is not what real artistic sensitivity means, but that's what I feel right now. I also like the pretentious and the abstract. I find it hilariously delectable and just WORTH it. As of now I found myself frustrated in being uable to capture as much essence as I wished of the Japanese because of social norms. Of course I wouldn't like either being photographed by a tourist as I am putting on my shoes, for example.
So now that I got a digital camera, quite handier than the disposable camera on many aspects, I take many many pictures of 'the daily'. Up to now I have been taking an average of ten a day, which is way too little for my expectations. I should even be taking a pictures of my hands on this keyboard because it is so real and very representative of 'the daily', but I don't have extra arms. I really like this picture. I took it on the way home. And at home I could have taken the same picture at a different angle from my balcony. Ordinary boys hanging out on a surprisingly rare open space because it's hot, there's no school and nothing to do in this residential town. In a few days, which is actually a few days ago, they will (have been) wearing school uniforms.