Photograph: Fixing Downtown Kansas City

Fixing Downtown 2 Version 2, originally uploaded by Delany Dean.

I have always been reluctant to take photographs of people, because they tend to shy away from the camera, or pose in an artificial way. But I love street photography, and have begun to venture out a bit more to see what I can come up with. There's a photographer I admire tremendously; he goes by the name "designldg" on Flickr, and I would love to do work like his. It requires good technique with the camera, good light, and some editing and layering work.

This photograph (above) is a move in that direction.