My wife looks at me like that every now and then when she is completely annoyed with whatever I may be doing. Most of the time, I don't blame her at all. However, I suppose that glance could be interpreted any number of ways. 🙂
My wife didn't appreciate my "Don't know what the fuss is about, this selfie shit is easy...." post on FB 9 yrs ago, she still looks at me the same way now and no interpretation needed.... 😉
I agree with the point you've made. And perhaps without doing so consciously, you've possibly made a point that there might not be such a thing, really, as street photography, or landscape photography, portrait photography, etc. etc. Each shades imperceptibly into the other, and those categories are a convenience that facilitates discussion but does not reflect reality. My approach to photography is that there's Photography, full stop. In pursuit of a photographic project, I might take photographs that could be squeezed, conceptually, into any number of those genres. But I've found that trying to fit my work into a specific genre only creates unnecessary restrictions (in my head) about what I should or should not be shooting.
I see this as Ann area where it is easy to bet tangled up with semantics. Almost no one thinks about "telling a story" when they make a photo. But, many want their photos to "say something". Many realize their photos must elicit some sort of viewer response to have merit. We see photos that cause no response i our minds, typically those as we quickly scroll on by
I can think of some photos that have merit but elicit no emotional response, but they are usually purely informational: I google a new restaurant, and there's a picture of the facade. The merit of that picture lies in its ability to help me recognize the restaurant quickly as I drive down the street. Purely functional.
