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Le Cigarette, East Village, New York Street Photography by James Maher Photography

This was a reactionary shot, walking home at dusk with my camera around my wrist.  I noticed the woman in the grate to the right of me and only had a split second to photograph it before she noticed me.

Because of the movement of my camera, there is a slight bit unavoidable blur, which I love in certain cases such as this.  It adds that vibrant, ethereal but gritty, real-life street feeling of the old masters.  But at the same time it makes the photograph feel almost like a black and white painting.

As Bresson said: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."