Exploring "street photography"

Recently, I've been looking at the huge amount of "street" work coming out. It made me realise that it's what I was doing about 40 years ago with my camera - I couldn't afford more than two lenses for my Praktica film camera then, and I developed and printed all my own work in a darkroom at home.

In recent years I believe I was hoodwinked into using zoom lenses on dslr's. Not so much the dslr itself, it's just a tool to record an image. But the ease with which you can fire off far too many frames, and alter the focal length so easily somehow caused my "focus" on the scene before me falter - don't know if I'm making sense, but there we are. The size of the dslr with a zoom - even a modest one, hanging off the camera was getting in the way of moving amongst people easily. And it was affecting my ability to see good images. Badly.

About 6 weeks back I bought a 40mm "pancake lens" for my Canon dslr. It's wonderful! Great image quality and bokeh etc etc ...

but...

All that is not as important as the fact that now my dslr has suddenly become so well balanced, portable,and  light - and is not drawing attention to itself. And I'm previsualising images more knowing that I only have one angle of view to work with. In other words, I'm thinking (Lord, help me!!) before firing off another image.

I think I'm becoming a bit of a one lens guy...

Looking in through a tailor's doorway this afternoon, there was so much going on...