The Streets

There are so many things to see that we no longer look for because we are busy!

Photo by David Lehman

The streets call people for many reasons. Those reason could be anything and everything. The streets are more than just our world they are the homes to many, the livelihood of others and the gift for others. There is no end to what happens on the streets. Some of those things are good and some of them are not so good. Some of them walk the line of ethics and morals. To others, they are what drives them to create art.

What call me to the streets? What calls you to the streets? It could be running the streets and doing things of that nature. I could be shopping, eating and just living life. I could very well be your home and where you make your life. Yet for the creatives out there it is freedom. It is connection, the people, the flow and the life they see and create within those streets. 

I have always had a draw to street photography and I have put off that calling for years. Some of that was because I didn’t have a camera or that I didn’t think I could take good shots with just my iPhone. However, today I have both an excellent camera and a perfect phone. The streets call to me now, and I find freedom in them. The freedom to create and to show the world how alive they are. 

I have only been doing street photography for about four days and at first I was terrified to even get out of the car. I still have to fight that fear, yet each day it is easier and easier. The streets call me. They call me to see the art within everything that moves and lives on the streets. I must be out there taking photos and seeing what it is about this city that I have been missing. 

What calls you to the streets? 

As always take care of yourself and each other!