Creepin'

Street photography is something that is really terrifying for me. I absolutely love looking at good street photography and follow lots of street photographers on Instagram, but have never quite been able to convince myself to do it. In general I'm a pretty outgoing person and I have no problem talking to strangers in all kinds of situations, but for some reason taking pictures of people without asking them makes me super uncomfortable (which is expecially strange since I do all kinds of other dumb and embarrassing things in public without thinking twice). I think I'm mostly concerned that they'll see me doing it and think I'm some sort of creep and it will make them uncomfortable, but I'm not really sure. Those of you that have done some street photography, how do you get over the weirdness of taking pictures of strangers?

Anyways, last I was on the rooftop of a parking garage where I had parked for work and decided to take some easy street pictures from above. I realized that it would seem even more creepy is someone happened to look up and see me, but thankfully nobody did. This is my favorite of the pictures I took that day, but my favorite thing about street photography is incorporation of people's faces, which this doesn't have, and therefore I don't find it very compelling. I'm going to try to force myself to do more street photography in the future, so everyone yell at me if I don't! :)