Slobodan, Don't apologize for not understanding street. You may have missed it but I had a rather sharp exchange with Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork magazine on LuLa not long ago. Brooks doesn't understand street either and a while back he published what he thought was a collection of shots from a competent street photographer. Unfortunately, all the "street" shots in the magazine with the possible exception of two should have gone into the round file instead of on the pages of the magazine. Also unfortunately Brooks chose to publish a collection of pictures by Vivian Maier in the same issue. The poor "street" guy ended up looking pretty lame. I've found that competent landscapers rarely understand street. But that doesn't make them bad photographers. I think it takes a certain kind of personality to "get" street. Happily, most of the history of photography has to do with street, and Ansel sort of comes off as a footnote, so there are plenty of people out there who do "get" street.
And Lou, I don't know why I shoot stuff like this. As I've often said, if you think about a photograph before you shoot it's likely that what you end up with won't be worth the trouble. I'm convinced that both in poetry and photography you have to rely on your unconscious.
