Street Photography is more than photos of people

Basically, I discovered street photography by accident. I started off shooting landscapes, nature and other, now mundane, features, but, I was getting bored. I found that I was more interested in my photos if there were people in them.

Wanting to take my photography to the next level, I found that I was interested in the photos of Joel Sartore of National Geographic. Not that I will ever be a National Geo photographer, but everyone has to have an idol in one’s life

Upon adding people to my landscape and nature photos they became more interesting. However, they still felt distant as I wanted to get closer to my subjects.

Then I began to switch the style and subject matter in my photos and started shooting people in their natural settings: as if they were trees, streams or flowers. I started getting closer to my subjects, not only physically but emotionally as well.

Soon after changing my style of taking a photo by not relying on the exact adherence to the rule of thirds I quickly gravitated to a less obvious camera and tried to become one with the environmental elements of my surroundings. My camera became more a part of my persona rather than merely an object for capturing an image.

The area in which I live has many festivals and fairs in the summer. These became a source of “Street Photos” of the patrons and the vendors.  This has afforded numerous “Street Photos” that is now an integral part of my website, ”https://www.adventuresthrumylens.com”.