La Mesa Construction Workers

June 27, 2010 by Rob Hurlbut

La Mesa construction at the intersection of University and La Mesa Blvd. in La Mesa, CA June 25th, 2010

Digging Up The Street In La Mesa

Over the last few months, crews have been tearing up streets in my neighborhood. They have slowly migrated their way down the street and around the corner. At one point they accidentally knocked over a fire hydrant, which created a great firefighter and water filled photo-op for me.

La Mesa Construction

Worker Emerges From The Street

When I capture images of people, I prefer the subject not be posed, just captured. I like natural looking, spontaneous images and if the subject happens to be smiling that’s just fine, as long as they aren’t told to, “look at the camera and smile.” As I snapped photos of the work area, the man above emerged from the giant hole in the street and happened to look at the camera.