Trying to avoid taking pictures with too much sky in them. No easy feat since I’m on the beach a lot.

Do you want your photos to look good in an art gallery or make you feel angry, sad or happy? Ideally both, but life doesn’t usually look at that great showcased on a wall.

I think the type of street photography that has very deliberate compositions are quite boring to look at. I know the photographer hung out at the scene for an indefinite amount of time waiting for the moment to strike. I appreciate the dedication, but the result is lost on me. Life is chaotic. I want to see it play out. Bonus if a nice composition comes from it, but for me, moment is king.

I’ve been trying lately to move about undetected. Going for no eye contact, scenes in the original state. But sometimes it’s impossible to attain. I’d rather have a bruised scene than no scene at all. Sometimes the eye contact adds something to it.

I think it’s way underrated for street photography. In LA there’s such a wide variety of places to shoot that all look different. Easier to make a nice image that looks very different from one another. And there’s no reason not to come away with decent photos on a daily basis. You could bike down The Strand and make very different images from Santa Monica to Redondo. All have unique character and demographics of people. And that’s just on the beach, a small slice of LA.