Someone asked why I don't do street photography, anymore. For one thing, I don't find myself "in the street" as much, anymore.

Secondly, much of my time with the camera is spent walking around my local neighborhoods. Some of these neighborhoods are upper crust white where the presence of a black man, let alone a black man taking pictures, isn't welcome. I can't tell you the number of times, after taking a shot, I transitioned from "photographer mode" to "pedestrian mode" only to find someone (white) sitting in their car watching me... Of course, this is all in my head. Until it isn't.

Thirdly, since 9/11 (remember 9/11?), I've found folks in general a lot more suspicious of someone aiming "an expensive camera" in their direction. Forget about the billions of people waving phones around, cameras (nevermind cameras on tripods) are much more taboo than they used to be.

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