Training

I consider that I am extremely lucky to be a photographer who lives in Edinburgh. I have a real love of street photography and Edinburgh provides me with many opportunities to improve my eye in this area. My main failing at the moment is simply not getting out with the camera enough.

Garry Winogrand is famous for having exposed three rolls of film every day for his entire adult life. That's 36,500 pictures a year. When he died he left more than 2500 rolls of film exposed but undeveloped, 6500 rolls developed but not proofed, and 3000 rolls proofed but not examined (a total of a third of a million unedited exposures).

That statement is an example of how often one of the greats of street photography got out. I'm not aiming for that, and I'm not aiming for greatness, but I do wish to produce meaningful and evocative pictures, and to do that I need to use my camera more.

Festival season is upon Edinburgh now, the population will pretty much double here. Scenes of every description will be taking place minute by minute in the capital. I think that if ever there were opportunities within street photography this month is it.