Coffee in Seattle

[Ron Scubadiver]

July, 2015, Seattle
From this batch: https://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/seattle-monochromes/

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Do they really drink coffee through straws ? I am all astonishment. What next ...

[Ron Scubadiver]

It's probably some fancy coffee with ice, flavorings and cream, not the usual stuff we try to start the day with.

[John Geerts]

Nicely captured.      Perhaps they drink warm ice-cream with a coffee smell ?

[elsa hoffmann]

good image and conversion Ron

[DaveO]

It's probably some fancy coffee with ice, flavorings and cream, not the usual stuff we try to start the day with.

  They might even be using flavored straws like Chocolate!

[Ron Scubadiver]

It's probably some fancy coffee with ice, flavorings and cream, not the usual stuff we try to start the day with.

  They might even be using flavored straws like Chocolate!

I want a chocolate straw!

[armando_m]

it is the current version of milk shakes, there is a coffee stand at work that sells this kind of stuff, it's hard for me  to keep a straight face when you hear the orders , with all the odd combinations of milk, coffee, flavorings , specially when coming from a big bearded guy

nice shot Ron !

[David Paterson]

I like this shot, and the b/w conversion is excellent.

[The_Traveler]

I don't have any idea what people are seeing that I'm not.
This is a picture of two random females holding cups of coffee.
What is unusual, interesting or beautiful about this that I should be seeing?

[Ron Scubadiver]

I don't have any idea what people are seeing that I'm not.
This is a picture of two random females holding cups of coffee.
What is unusual, interesting or beautiful about this that I should be seeing?

For starters there are 3 females holding cups of coffee.  If you don't like it, that's how it goes.

[The_Traveler]

Liking or disliking is irrelevant here.
I just don't understand what you think is interesting, important or humorous or whatever that caused you to take the picture, decide to convert it to BW and then post it.
I don't understand why people are making compliments about the picture because I have no idea what they are seeing that they like.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

People don't necessary have to *like* a picture to make comments about it. Personally I find such apparently random windows into street life not very interesting unless one notices a reason for its being other than that the camera and lens pointed in that particular direction.

However, as any photo is like opening a window into a new world or landscape, we can observe details that spark off puzzlement or beg for asking more questions. I think that is what happened here. Many of us have a relationship to the beverage allegedly carried by the people inside the street view.

[stenrasmussen]

As a fixed time shot it works for me. The coffee strawed by these women is a sign of our consumating modern time.

[David Paterson]

What is unusual, interesting or beautiful about this that I should be seeing?

I think this is a good example of what used to be called "slice of life" photography, a term which seems more appropriate than it's modern equivalent, "street". There is an interesting interplay of light and shade, there is interplay between the two principal figures, there is the coffee - times three - and the image is an excellent example of b/w conversion, something I don't always manage to my own satisfaction. So there is actually quite a lot going on.

I don't always like Ron's work (he should care!) but this works for me, though it's hard to say exactly why.