Back on the Street

Chimping the Shot Times Three. Barcelona, 2014

Out of the mountains and back on the streets…

And, hopefully, I´m not doing too much of the above between shots as I practice my street photography here in Barcelona…

Trying to capture interesting moments or juxtapositions is extremely difficult. I am finding that for each relatively successful capture I lose about 50. That is, I watch 50 interesting situations develop and immediately dissipate like a song on the wind before I get a chance to get in position with my camera up and the subject(s) framed.

Learning to anticipate what might develop is a skill that will certainly take time. The good part is, even though I don´t actually press the shutter on many, many situations, I am at least seeing them. The next step will be to get ahead of the time curve enough to know when the critical trajectories are coming together.

Practice, practice, practice…

Here are some warm-up images from the first day of walking the streets and alley ways of this city of a thousand faces: