Street photography - catching the moment

This post refers to a gallery that existed on the earlier site woolypigimages.com and has now been restyled for northandsouthlife. The link in the post below now redirects to a new 'moments' gallery containing mostly 'street' images

The great things about street photography is that you can do it petty much anywhere that man has made a mark… the street, of course, but inside buildings, in parks, on a bus or in the underground. What is street photography? Well, a definition we might use is the interplay of people and the environment they have created. If you might consider that photography is comprised of four key elements – technique, composition, impact and meaning – then street photography really aims for the last two.

The fact that you have to assemble all of this, sometimes in a fraction of a second, just makes it a much greater challenge. Almost certainly too great a challenge for us – but sometimes, just very rarely – we might manage to catch a little impact and even meaning… something to make it worth a second look.

This image was a fleeting one on a sleepy night in Mumbai after a long and tiring flight. The images on the wall by the travelator were too good to miss, and all it took was a walk back to wait for the next passengers to go past. Not great by any means, but a real Bollywood memory from a remarkable city nevertheless.

We hope you like the gallery… You can find it here.

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