Slightly Nutty Street Photography

     On this sidewalk, there were a lot of people  sitting on the terrace of a café. At first I noticed  the striped sweater of the girl on the right. But then the other one, slightly turning her face towards me, hugged herself very gently and I was captivated by such a beautiful gesture.

     Most probably the man was accompanying his daughter to a deguised birthday party. I did not want to be too intrusive by shooting them from the front. So I waited that they went past me. And then I realized that her angel wings were magnificent from behind, reminding me of the angels in the movie Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders.

     It had been weeks that I was wondering about this poster on the window of a  personal assistance company. Of course I got the meaning of the scene: a young helping lady, having fun with the old man she was helping. But all this seemed a bit exaggerated to me, and when a sad-looking man went in between I felt like the whole scene made sense at last.

     From inside the toy shop, where I was buying a gift for a colleague's baby, I noticed that one of the two sellers had just gone outside to clean the shop window. I knew this window very well, since in front of it there was a beautiful statue of Pinocchio which I had tried several times to photograph. Then the opportunity to shoot this cleaning of Pinocchio was too good to miss, and I pretended  to have something else to look at  so that I could snap the scene.