But the fact is, street photography is not about bums, hot girls, street musicians, and not about streets. In my current understanding, street photography is about things happening with people on the street, lasting only for seconds, or fractions of seconds, that can be funny, moving, thought-provoking, thus interesting on a higher level than "just a hot chick from behind". The beauty of the gender is, you have to be at the right place in the right time, you have to NOTICE the things, and you have to be awake enough to quickly compose and snap a photo of it.
If all clicks together you can get images like the ones here:
http://www2.in-public.com/
My favourites there are Nick Turpin's and Nils Jorgensens' galleries, but the others are also quite interesting.
What is it good for?
Well, you certainly won't get rich of it. Maybe good for fame, if you manage to get good ones and enough people clap on the Net. Maybe good for ego if you manage to get some that please you so you can say Yes, i snapped it, yes, this is how it happened.
And when you reach a really high level you can display them in public
🙂 and change the world a bit.
But the first "gain" of doing it is, you will start
seeing more from our world, and enjoy the simple days more, just by looking around and noticing the interesting people, the funny coincidences, the unbelievable scenes that, one after the other, develop and disappear in front of all of us. What on earth can beat that?