If you type the term “Street Photography” into the search engine of your choice, you’ll see that many references to 1930’s photography icon Henri Cartier-Bresson will flood the findings and leave another Frenchman, Charles Negre, who was doing the same thing 80 years beforehand. I’m not one to be any judge on what is or is not street photography as we have all seen examples of where the bow has been stretched very far to use the term for some works of photographers.

I took initially myself that street photography was to document people, events, snapshots - or as the overused term “Decisive Moment” is to be had. I looked, listened and found my own little thing where, yes , people can be in the frame - but I looked for the way shapes were formed or how the light worked in a scene.

I use people to help make the image a bit more interesting with the environment surrounding them. I did use a bit of planning for this image below and waited for someone to walk in front of the very large mural on the golfing shop within the backstreet of Melbourne.