I couldn’t agree more, Eric. I’m still mourning the fact that I asked for, and got, a Street Showcase. I grossly overestimated the extent to which the LuLa community, and it seems the photographic community in general, have internalized the lessons given us by Cartier-Bresson and the other real street photographers. To me, interactions between people and between people and their environment are what cameras are for – not landscape, which can be done much more effectively with a brush.
On the other hand, a camera is wonderful for the kind of thing Michael has done here. You can’t make this kind of thing really believable by painting it or by drawing it.
I think a new thread with uncategorized images probably would be a good idea, though I doubt you could avoid allowing critiques. We probably could do away with “categories” like Rantorials, which had its last post in March of 2019, or Midnight Rainbows, which had its last post in July of that year. Both have simply been sitting there moving on toward a second year without a post.
Ah well…