January 4, 2020

Street Photography

Now as a street photographer you move down the sidewalk, casual, nonchalant, a tourist, making images of people, places and things, timing your approach along with a quick composition, your trademark, now you are beginning to hum and anticipate and extend your visual senses to encompass blocks ahead anticipating the integration of your intuition, emerging into a scene present yet not fully formed and composed for your unique eyes.

Then mayhem with motion, dogs barking, people hurrying to their destination, the cars blocking the cross walk, people yelling to get out of the way and you are suddenly in the middle of this chaos and you are opening your consciousness to feel the image forming coming at you as someone runs by head down with a stolen purse luckily you anticipated the crowded streets today and had your wide angel lens ready for the entertainment. 

Street photography is being present in your moments and anticipating someone else’s moments and where you need to be to be able to compose an image worthy of the scene developing but also a keen awareness of the buildings, glass displays, a unique individual that catches your perceptive vision and your once again on the hunt.

As a (street) photographer you are intuitively involved in the multiplicity of peoples behaviors and anticipating a moment when their personality would be revealed with intensity and a unique visual sense and timing to be where you should be as the composition forms in your mind and abstracted from the external reality where the scene became real but it originated in your intuitive mind to be in a certain spot as the people walked in unison as you slipped casually into an already preplanned view point to make a landscape of humanity in a busy city.