First post for a while now. I am becoming more consistent but what with work and limited time where I feel creative enough to sit at my computer and pick and edit, large photographic events like my recent short holiday to Barcelona take an age to publish.

This is part one of that holiday.

I love making street photography and it is one of my favourite forms of photographic art. It is so fleeting and unexpected, it tells stories in an instant and it is sheer joy to be there to capture.

Extract from my

website

on candid street photography:

I enjoy making candid photography, capturing natural behaviour unbeknownst to the subject, and being an invisible eye onto the poetry of ordinary lives. Cartier-Bresson is my idol in this field of photography, where you must find a calm, unassuming confidence to be able to dissolve into the crowd.

Appearing, taking the photograph, hiding: his style of unmeditated, spontaneous photography has greatly influenced my attitude and purpose

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I find it rare however that I am in a position to spend time on street photography in a place which inspires me - cities can feel so dull and flat at times, especially in England I feel at times that every person separates themselves from the crowd and hurries from box to box. Barcelona I knew would be a great place to find people living out their lives on the street - and so it was, even in February! So I focused the trip on searching for these moments and have achieved the highest keeping rate of candid photos that I am happy with to date.

I tried to spend a little time arranging the set to tell a story of sorts. This was not premeditated but reflects the feelings I have about cities and how people live together in them.

This is also one of my first entirely (almost!) B&W sets.

Partly due to the discovery of Silver Efex Pro (by Nix Software) but also because it seemed more than ever to fit the medium and bring the emotive message of each photograph to the fore.

Click to view as slideshow in Flickr: