There's more to life than just the street!

Even if you're passionate about street photography, you can very well appreciate other places, other subjects, and want to capture them with your camera to add to your collection of hunting trophies and eventually share them.

A magnificent landscape in a picturesque setting cannot fail to stir the photographer in me! Faced with such an opportunity, I feel an uncontrollable urge, a vital obligation to immortalize the image that unfolds before me, almost as if to taunt me. I absolutely must add it to my collection of memories, if only to share it with others or to relive it myself someday. Life flies by, and my camera gives me the illusion of being able to stop it and capture a fragment of it. Photography allows me to rewind my life whenever I need to!

So here's the street photographer in me, capable of the worst sacrilege, pulling out my tripod (unthinkable in the street) and even my wide-angle lens so as not to miss a thing. Worse still, you might even catch me attempting a panorama, just to get an even wider perspective on my subject! Yet, I don't feel guilty at all. I could even admit to feeling a certain joy, captivated by the colors and the grandeur of the spectacle unfolding before my eyes...and therefore before my camera.

Urban landscapes and architecture are also particularly prized visual opportunities for street photographers. Exploring the city and developing a keen sense of observation often allows them to find themselves in the front row of urban spaces, enabling them to contemplate the works—or disasters—of human engineering from new and original perspectives. So why not take advantage of these opportunities and use a few more clicks to capture the composition offered by our gaze?

The technical skills acquired by experimenting with other types of photography will prove invaluable in street photography. Photographing a moving animal, for example, requires us to shoot quickly while maintaining a good shutter speed, appropriate lighting, and a suitable composition of the subject within its habitat. In fact, when you think about it, wildlife photography is probably the closest thing to street photography. The main difference between these two types of photography is probably...the animal!