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Hello photography lovers friends at #Hive!... Welcome to a new edition of my series of photographs "Exposed Gaze". As some of you may know, this is a publication format which I use to share my more diverse street photography. As I have been wandering the streets with my camera for a long time, I have learned to understand street photography as something that goes far beyond the open angle street scene and I enjoy recording other more intimate aspects of the urban environment around me.

📷 01 - "Carabobo Avenue with old façades"

📷 02 - "Socrates and his almost human gaze"

Obviously, this selection of photos also has typical street scenes where "you can certainly see a street" but what I mean is that I like to explore the close-up, the intimate at the same time as the typical breadth of a street captured at wide angle. Here I usually find people, things, dogs, cats and a lot of visual drama... After all this is a town where the old, the new, the rural and the urban, all blend together and conspire to create a lot to photograph...

📷 03 - "Robert"

📷 04 - "Robert's hands"

I do a lot of street photography because I find that this is the most "psychological" type of photography there is. And that's because when you take pictures on the streets you never know what you're going to find in front of you. So every image is a challenge, something that we need to analyse quickly and forces us to capture in a way that each photo "says as much as possible" about what is happening there. This is almost like "reading a book" on every walk through the streets of the village. And believe me, it is a great exercise to develop intuition and even to get to know oneself better...

📷 05 - "Three-dog street"

📷 06 - "Old Chevrolet becoming a Picasso"

I've been in these streets for about fifteen years (I estimate, as I'm not very good at remembering dates).... Before taking street photos, I used to take landscapes and macros in nature... I don't remember very well when I started shooting in the streets, nor how, nor why... But the truth is that I haven't stopped until now, so I ended up becoming "The madman with the camera in hand"... It's funny, but that's what some of my neighbours in the town call me.. :))

📷 07 - "Normal neighbourhood with cat"

📷 08 - "Single Shoe Story"

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And of course, we couldn't miss the black & white versions!

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📷 01	📷 02	📷 03	📷 04

📷 05	📷 06	📷 07	📷 08

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The shots are then exported to JGP format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.

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Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!

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Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.