You’re right John, I was about to talk about my editing in this Blog but gave up on it. The way I edit my pictures has to deal with my mood. Not my everyday mood, but when something bothered me. I can see things pretty dark with a tendency to see things worst than they really are. So when I’m saying that there’s a lot of me in my photographs, I’m not fainting it… When I’m on holidays, I shoot more color. I’m more relax, less stressed and I’m looking forward playing with color. For this light & shadow stuff, as you know where I live, the light is beautiful and we often have blue sky. The few times I went shooting last week, the light was pretty flat and I liked it. I Stopped Relying too much on light and I forced myself to look for other things because we see too much on FB or Insta people using it as a gimmick. Which often ends in boooring pictures.

Invading someone’s personal space is perhaps your style, but also light and contrasts play a major part of the photos you present. This of course reflects your location, the viewer can get a real feel of Aix-en-Provence.

At some stage the documentation will become historical. So many of the great photos that we revere are purely due to the history factor. The people, cars, fashion, buildings that may have long disappeared. Capturing a moment like that is what photography is possibly.

Back to Street or Life Photography. I think part of what might seem like bravery is due to where we are shooting. If we place ourselves in a tourist attraction – Aix for you, Bath for me – then carrying and pointing a camera at people is normal. They aren’t that bothered. Try the same in a “standard” small town and the reaction is different. You might remember one of my early blogs whereby I was approached by the police wanting to know what I was doing and why. In New York the police will pose for you, there’s the difference.

Cheers for now. J