The biggest challenge for me when I first wanted to go out and try street photography was that I was afraid of how people on the street would react to me being out with a big camera and possibly photographing them.  What I learned very quickly was that people just don’t care about what anyone else is doing.  That being said I don’t shove my camera in their face but as I’m out shooting, people just tend to ignore me completely and go about their day.

The thing I love about street photography is how I can capture everyday ‘boring’ things in the most creative way I can and the moments that only last for a second and if I wasn’t there to capture it, nobody ever would have seen it.  I once heard urban street photography described as “the wild west of photography” because you never know what  you’re heading into and that truely is the case.  You can walk the same route every day and you will get different subjects and a different story every single time.

When I started out I was using a 55-250mm telephoto lens.  I now shoot with a 24mm, 50mm equivalent.  This is because I want to capture not only my subject but the environment around them to give my image more context and to let the story tell itself.  It’s easy to go out and snap boring pictures that don’t mean anything to anyone.  That’s why when I look at different scenes I look for something that catches my eye or looks out of place but also something that makes me ask a question or sparks an emotional connection with the subject or scene.