Let’s Talk About Traditional Street Photography While there is a full range of topics surrounding street photography, especially how to do this in quiet places, suburban places, in your home, etc, I don’t want to leave the more traditional street photography out – the candid people photography, the decisive moment, the serendipitous, whatever you may […]

  Photographing ‘Close to Home’ There are the same amount of great photographs right outside your door as there are across the world. And in this case maybe more. You have a chance to deeply focus on what’s around you. To capture areas you know well and go to back over and over again, finding new

Here’s a description of the progression of your everyday street photographer. I’ll just get right to it, but please take this as tongue in cheek! 1. The Brick Phase After watching the Vivian Maier documentary one day, you buy your first street photography camera. Your camera sits like a brick for a few months, except for

With Spring here, I think it’s time to fully embrace your inner photo weirdo. Seriously, hear me out.  If you missed the Street Photography Anywhere class, a common comment was how uncomfortable people were to do this type of work – to shoot in quiet areas, to capture portraits of random people, to shoot in suburbs,

The term street photography is often thought to mean photographs of people, and usually in big and busy cities, usually walking along the sidewalks. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s a big part of it yes, but it’s only a part. Street (or social) photography is a sensibility, one that can and

First Place: Tommi Here are the results! (For those of you who aren’t familiar – this is the result of a contest run with my mailing list to send photos taken within 5 blocks of your home). I found it pretty exciting that nearly 100 sent in submissions. I’m going to include the three winners