I regard the street as a stage. It has a defined area, flanked by a “set.” I allow the actors to walk on this stage and relate to each other and to the setting, almost always without realizing they are being photographed as they do so. This image is a typical example of my street photography technique. I like the pattern of the old cobblestone street. The green and gold painted walls add character, and the advertisements in the windows of a beauty salon offer striking portraiture. Two signs marking an entrance to a public parking garage stand in the middle of the street, acting as bookends for my image. I stood within the entrance to the parking garage, and waited for my “cast” to appear. I made about 20 images in about ten minutes, all of them capturing the relationships of passers-by in both time and space. In this one, I was able to create a triangular relationship involving three diverse individuals. A woman wearing a traditional Ecuadorian costume anchors the image. She dresses in the three primary colors of red, yellow and blue, and gives this photograph its sense of place. She is larger in scale than the woman who walks away from the camera at the mid point of the frame. She looks in one direction, while a man who is even smaller, apparently waiting for someone across the street, looks in another. The glamorous models portrayed in the pictures within the window of the beauty shop across the street seem to be seeing these characters but never acknowledge them.