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I was itching to take these shots while sitting in the café, but the subjects were too far away for my short lens. I took the plunge, anyway. After heavy editing, the results are gritty, but certainly don’t lack character. In technical lingo, they're "tight crops," meaning they were small parts of a much larger image.