haha Papa Paul!! Your name came up in conversation a few times mate - all good of course....it was like you were there in spirit - I think you'd had a chat with Andrew the day (or certainly last couple of days) before. We had a much more longer chat than I've shown here but I may well publish that as part of the podcast I was chatting to you about later this year. You're spot on with the value proposition which increases over the years. I wonder if everyone will still be glued to their phones in 50 odd years time.....perhaps we'll all just live virtually - WALL-E style!! Have a good weekend mate and catch up soon

Me too Andrew, look forward to seeing your take on the day :)

Thanks Peter, I think I'll be doing a vid soon where I'm just concentrating on that kind of style a bit more. This trip was def more about having a good chat with a fellow photographer - always good. Have a great weekend mate :)

Cheers Lee. TBH that's my kind of street photography, the type I prefer anyway. I'm going to do a dedicated vid about that style pretty soon, but it wasn't the type of day for doing much of it this time. Andrew might pop up with a vid pretty soon from the day but I know he had some audio issues so I think it depends on what he was able to rescue.

Hey mate, yeah it was nice to be out and about and having a chat with someone again. Hope you're up for another meet up again in the near future, I'm going to put together something in the PD in the next 6-8 weeks if you're available and fancy a morning shooting

@@LetsClickPhotography yeah I’m definitely up for that. Just let me know in good time so I can plan around it.

Thanks mate. I do prefer capturing the more artistic side of street, like the panning or emphasising movement and shadow but wanted to be a little general on this one. I tend to agree with you on the human element, but it's a fairly blurry line between street, urban and architecture that's for sure. Take a shot of the building looking directly up and it can't possibly be 'street'. Take that shot from a few hundred yards away with someone happening to walk past and all of a sudden it is. And architecture could be either version with a slightly different focus. Fine lines!......but some folks get so angry about it in photography groups...so sure of their personal definition they lambast anyone who differs, I always find that astonishing.

Thanks mate. I've actually been using the 85 a lot recently, but thought I'd take the 70-200 on this trip just for that bit of versatility.....my next trip I might well try shooting everything at 16 and see how that goes....like you I can't nail one that I think 'that's it!'

@@LetsClickPhotography wow 16 would be interesting! I did think about taking 100-400 and doing something crazy as we have some very long straight streets in Melbourne but tbh I was bit self conscious lugging such a large heavy lens around town!

To be completely honest Martin, me neither. What I do find fascinating about it is the certainty with which some photographers gate-keep the genre, hence the conversation we were having in this one. I'm not going to be veering off into street photography realms too much more (maybe just another one) before heading back to the tranquil of less inhabited areas....less geese noise in the landscape too haha :)

Hey mate, thanks. I gotta admit, I am not a huge fan of most of the shots I've put into this, they wouldn't see the light of day outside of this vid. The day itself was far more about the chat than the shooting, was great to have a good few hours nattering with Andrew. The shot you mention is one of three that I would actually be willing to show off elsewhere. It needs a bit more refinement and time, and is one that I will go back and shoot again. I utilised a coloured plastic piece of street art pressed against the right of the lens. The longer focal length allowed me to magnify the guy who was on the far side of the street....doing this with a wide or more classic SP focal length and the guy in the left of the shot would look really far away. Next time I will line up the road in the reflection and wait until I get a person on both sides of the image, mirroring each other (probably be sat there for hours as it's way off the beaten track!)

@@LetsClickPhotography I think we're all our own biggest critics - nothing wrong with that though - it's the pursuit of perfection I suppose. Definitely going to have to try that trick out, cheers. 👍

Thanks Hugo 😀

@@LetsClickPhotography My pleasure!