I’d like to start by thanking everyone who joined our Streettogs Academy facebook page and giving a congratulations to everyone who participated in our first Assignment and props to Helio Tomita who got our Editor’s choice. We hope you learned something new from that assignment. As promised, our editor’s choice will be the one choosing the theme for our next assignment. Here are some of Helio’s thoughts in selecting our assignment:

I think it would be interesting to do something that is not concrete, but something abstract as a feeling…  Themes that need some sensitivity and rapidity in the capture, since they are usually fleeting. They are not permanently available to the photographer, but are happening all the time in the streets.

Based on that thought, Helio’s assignment for us is:

Think about it for a second.

It really is indeed happening on the streets all the time. There are friends meeting up in the streets hugging or going in night outs. Sometimes, friendship also manifests it self to different species like a human and his companion dog. So many things are there but I guess the challenge is making that connection with the viewer that when he sees the photograph, he will miss his best friend. The biggest task for this is to be able to convey the emotion of friendship.

Here are the mechanics: