The famous 52 Street Photography Now instruction can be found here

https://www.flickr.com/groups/instruction00/discuss/72157627757730866/

Otherwise, I will end up always looking them again and again.

Tony Ray-Jones was a British documentary photographer, who died in 1972 at the age of 31 from leukemia

He recorded the following advice to himself on shooting street:

Be more aggressive
Get more involved (talk to people)
Stay with the subject matter (be patient)
Take simpler pictures
See if everything in background relates to subject matter
Vary compositions and angles more
Be more aware of composition
Don’t take boring pictures
Get in closer (use 50mm lens [or possibly ‘less,’ the writing is unclear])
Watch camera shake (shoot 250 sec or above)
Don’t shoot too much
Not all eye level
No middle distance

So much advice has been recorded and published, particularly on street photography. Heck, there is even a list of 52 street photography instructions taken from the book Street Photography Now. Each instruction is given by a notable contemporary street photographer and, presumably, reflects their own style and credo. Try learning and following all 52. What would your body of work look like?

I wonder if a considerably more concise – both in length and level of detail – list from someone who died at 31 almost 50 years ago is worth internalizing.

Three things

One. I have not updated this blog in six years.

Two. Past entries are entertaining and educational, and I am glad I created them. The fact that they have zero comments does not seem to matter to me nearly as much as one might imagine. I was always the intended audience, anyone else would just be the accidental benefactor.

Three. Most photos and many links I linked 6-9 years ago are gone. This is 1)unfortunate, 2)understandable, 3)not something one thinks about while creating a post in the now, 4)almost certainly something others have noticed, given thought to, and solved this issue for themselves. It is almost certainly a good idea to liberally quote relevant portions of the post being referenced — specifically to guard against the post being lost/deleted/altered in the future. And the embedded photos are almost certainly safer being copied to one's own Google drive, but that can't be a good idea copyright-wise. Not to mention it's more work and may take out the fun out of (re)blogging something that one has just learned.

The one thing I still have not learned: how to format paragraphs in published Blogspot posts so that they have half a line space after them. Adding a blank paragraph creates too much blank space. Not inserting a space makes paragraphs stick together.