along Royal Street: If food and music is high on your happiness list, NOLA is the place to play your blues away...

dek Loc: S.W. Florida

If food and music is high on your happiness list, NOLA is the place to play your blues away

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rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Dek, I really like that third image! You might sell it to a travel guide or book.

Voss

Nice shots, dek. I, too, like that third one. Good imagination there.

dek Loc: S.W. Florida

Thanks Voss i respect your opinion

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

rjaywallace wrote:

Dek, I really like that third image! You might sell it to a travel guide or book.

I agree, they are all good, but #3 is the money shot!

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

All are really good photography!

None of them are Street Photograpjy.

Street necessarily means spontaneous non-staged images of life. Any type of a performance intended to be viewed by an audience is completely outside the very definition of what Street Photography is all about

dek Loc: S.W. Florida

I am a beginner. So now i know.

dek Loc: S.W. Florida

Thinking a little more about it...I think I prefer a wider defination.
Any spontaneous action or interaction of people in public ( on the street)

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Apaflo wrote:

All are really good photography!

None of them are Street Photograpjy.

Street necessarily means spontaneous non-staged images of life. Any type of a performance intended to be viewed by an audience is completely outside the very definition of what Street Photography is all about

Hmmm. Looked like street photography to me.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

dek wrote:

Thinking a little more about it...I think I prefer a wider defination.
Any spontaneous action or interaction of people in public ( on the street)

Sounds good to me.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Rab-Eye wrote:

Sounds good to me.

Sounds great perhaps, but that just goes against every authoritative reasoned understanding of why Street Photography is what it is.

If we accept just any nice picture we have the Photo Gallery, and just like accepting anything showing people would make this the People Photography Section, we need to accept that it is Street Photography that this section is about.

Every authoritative discussion of Street Photography explains why staged performances are not Street.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

dek wrote:

Thinking a little more about it...I think I prefer a wider defination.
Any spontaneous action or interaction of people in public ( on the street)

A staged performance or interaction is, by definition, not spontaneous. Note too that "on the street" in the sense you intend is not the same terminology as the "Street" in Street Photography. Street Photography is about a community and requires no connection to a roadway.

dek Loc: S.W. Florida

I give up. I will no longer post in your section. I'm sure you know there are many that disagree with your narrow definition.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

dek wrote:

I give up. I will no longer post in your section. I'm sure you know there are many that disagree with your narrow definition.

Images should be posted in an appropriate section.

Arbitrarily redefining Street Photography to fit images because we like them or because we took them would make this section redundant with the Photo Gallery section.

Note that the stated definition is not mine. That definition is univerasally accepted by virtually every authority on Street Photography (because it is logical). Read Wikipedia for starters perhaps, but the best resourse is the 1994 book Bystander: A History of Street Photography written by Colin Westerbeck with photo editing by Joel Meyerowitz.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Apaflo wrote:

Sounds great perhaps, but that just goes against every authoritative reasoned understanding of why Street Photography is what it is.

If we accept just any nice picture we have the Photo Gallery, and just like accepting anything showing people would make this the People Photography Section, we need to accept that it is Street Photography that this section is about.

Every authoritative discussion of Street Photography explains why staged performances are not Street.

I guess I don't know which definitions are the authoritative ones.