The reason for the grain is I was using film with ISO 400 .  I rather like it to be honest.

But still i can find some grains in all the shots...

But all shots are nice..

Don't sweat the guy making the threats. Sounds to me

like he was just looking for attention (at your expense) that

day. I've found that most people don't really care if they're in

my pics and a lot of time they actually make a face or something

just to be cheesy BUT if I'm intentionally taking a pic that focuses

on an individual or group I always ask if they mind having their picture

taken. Never had anyone say no but would certainly honor it if they did.

Your interpretation of life in Gore Park is great...let me guess - old Queen

Victoria suffered from an high ego issue and she's pic#5 lol. Only kidding!

The b&w treatment works well as Mandrake stated. Keep up the good work.

Dale.

Hope the day didn't turn you off from more tries at street photography.
I'm thinking that it could be a lot of fun, or............... maybe not.

One trick that might be good is to find an interesting background
and then wait for something to happen.

Somehow street photography always seems to work best in black and white.
You, obviously, think so too.

So last week, after work, I decided to go to Gore Park in Hamilton, Ontario to do some picture taking. They have a beautiful fountain, and a statue of Queen Victoria, plus lots of neat little gardens and such.

The area has quite the character, plus a few buildings are being torn down soon so I wanted to capture that for posterity.

So I am taking pictures away. Some of people, but mostly of the statue at this point.

All of a sudden a guy is in my face asking if I took a picture of him. I said no (not consciously anyway - he may have been in the frame), but if I did accidentally, I am sorry.

He demanded to know who I work for (answer was no one) and what I was taking pictures of. I said anything I found interesting (probably bad thing to say)

He said what I was doing was illegal and he was going to call the cops. I said there is nothing illegal here and go ahead and call the cops.

I walk away and take some pictures of the fountain. At that moment there was a really cool rainbow effect in the water. After a minute or two the guy is in my face again (he followed me).

He demanded again to know who I was working for. I said no one and please leave me alone.

He said he is going to call the police. I said go ahead, please do. Nothing is illegal here, this is a public park, and I am taking pictures on public property.

He yells out that I am a pedophile and starts going to all of the people around the fountain pointing to me saying I am a pedophile and taking pictures of all of them.

I said (believe it or not I didn't yell once) that this was a public area, there is nothing illegal, leave me alone.

He yells more.

I told him he was fucked up and to fuck off and leave me alone or I will call the police.

He just stood there staring at me. I stared back. An impasse, or standoff if you will.

In my head I thought he was going to kill me so I was getting out of there.

I turned and left. Kept looking over my shoulder to make sure he wasn't still following me. He wasn't.

So here are some pics from that shooting...all b&w film.