“Female Family” Photograph

Three female generations sticking together in the crush of a busy street market.

Sometimes it works quite well when somebody gets in the way when taking a photograph. This is a composition I would not have planned, and this is part of the reason why I like shooting from the hip as compositions are less restricted by my limited ideas of a balanced composition through the viewfinder. This shows me that I need to loosen up when composing photographs but that’s a skill that doesn’t come automatically to me so for now I release some compositional control by shooting from the hip instead. Sometimes it's a disaster, sometimes it works well.

Photograph taken at “Sunday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand