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Working With Layers in Street Photography, Part Two
One of the keys to success in layering is to have meaningful correspondence between the different layers: between subjects in the foreground, middle-ground and background.It’s not enough simply to fill...
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Working With Layers in Street Photography, Part One
In street photography, layers are successive planes of interest and action, occupying the foreground, middle ground and background, each one holding information that captures the viewer’s...
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Hacked Off
If you’ve visited this site during the past month or so, you’ll have noticed the lack of updates and the absence of featured pictures at the top of the posts.Sorry! The site got hit by the dreaded...
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Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery in Street Photography?
Like everyone else, photographers learn from other people’s experience. If you want to succeed — at cooking, carpentry, or rattlesnake venom extraction — you need to bear in mind how people have done...
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Walking Around a Roman Wall
What did the Romans do for us? Well, here in my home town of Colchester (Essex, UK) they built a rather nice wall, much of which is still standing after nearly 2,000 years. Not being able to venture...
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The Problem of Public Art in Street Photography
As a street photographer I’ve been keeping an eye on all these quirky bits of sculpture that keep appearing in places where you least expect them. I quite like one or two of them, like the Oscar Wilde...
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Do Street Photographers Need the Validation of their Peers?
Comedians get validation when people laugh. Politicians get validation when you vote for them. Street photographers get validation when you look at their work and don’t complain about it too loudly....
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Will Street Photography Last for a Thousand Years?
I’m sorry for the ambiguity of the title. There are two questions here: will people still be taking candid street photos a thousand years from now? And will they still want to look at the street photos...
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When Your Street Photo Really Has to Be Square
Just before taking the above image I felt the familiar set of mental signals that tells me: “this is potentially a good shot.” The composition has all the elements I like: movement, purpose,...
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BNE Was Here, There, and Everywhere
Going through my photos from Bangkok from last year, I came across the featured image (above). It has the kind of juxtaposition I like: with the surfeit of visual messages on every object, including...
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Must Street Photos Always Be Imperfect?
We live in an imperfect world — photography records the world as it is — therefore photography is always imperfect. Looking at the impeccably finished images of advertising, fashion, and landscape...
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How Fast Does the City Change When You Take Street Photos?
Before our great cities were locked down, making their streets deserted, they were places of swirling humanity. In fact, in the busiest areas the scene could change dramatically in a few seconds. Here...
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When Street Photography Is a Game of Two Halves
There’s a “retro” feel to my featured image today although I took it only two or three years ago. It does, however, illustrate one important point: that street photography — like football — can be a...
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Why Kids Look Great in a Square Frame
Kids, or children, as I prefer to call them (only goats have kids) usually look great in a square format. But why? I suppose it’s the usual story: if you’re shorter than the average adult you need the...
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Do Masks Really Help?
Taking street photos in Bangkok last year, long before the coronavirus pandemic started, I wore a mask because of the high air pollution levels. That’s me in the brown hat on the left, reflected in a...
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Shooting with the Fuji X100V In the Age of Coronavirus
Several weeks ago I ordered the all-black version of the new Fuji X100V, having talked myself into it while updating my article: “The Best Camera for Street Photography 2020.” The coronavirus crisis...
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Birdwatching on the Street
What? No people in the street? Don’t worry, you can always find a feathered friend, or two. Somewhile back I wrote a blog post called “Street Photographer Goes Birding.” It was a bit “tongue-in-cheek”...
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Candid Dogs
“You cannot be serious!” Surely, there are plenty of dog photos on the Internet. Why add to their number? I confess, although I like most of the dogs I meet I’m not a dog lover, as such. I don’t enough...
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What Is It With Bicycles?
I’m putting this question to myself because I often take a photo with a bicycle in it. Quite unintentionally I’m beginning to build a collection of images themed around the bicycle, although I don’t...
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Showing the Abundance of the Earth
Whenever I see examples of Earth’s abundance I feel mixed emotions. First, I feel joy and I want to celebrate and give thanks, but I also feel a sadness: a sense that we are simply exploiting the...
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