Agree, Jeremy. Careful cloning would take them out. But then again, the photograph could be used in a series based around the idea of how the "hand of man" can ruin a good view.
Agree
Now my question is
You are sitting in the bus and see this motif with cables there.
Just because of the cables
¿ would you or would you not shoot the motif ? I agree and not trying to find an excuse but even with the cables there and forgetting the puritanism ¿ what about the reality we are living nowadays ?
Look at Europe and USA cities and street photography there and now look at cities in Mexico and the corresponding Street Photography here.
Europe and USA NO cables at all. Mexico Huge Spiderwebs of chaotic cables everywhere ...
Should we then here in Mexico make NO Street Photography ... ¿?
We have to live with what we have I would say ¿ or ? be millionaires and move away from civilization