Having no plan is a good plan.
One of the things that I like the most about Street Photography is that you’re never gonna have a plan. I mean, you can plan where you’re going, you can schedule a time to go and you can plan what are you gonna take with you. But you have no idea what you’re gonna really find in the place, you can’t have in your mind a way to take a picture because at the place things can change. Maybe you can find something better than what you were expecting or maybe something worse. You have no rules to take a picture and no nobody can tell you if you’re doing good or not because there are no rules. And that is amazing!
Of course, every time I’m going out, I’m always nervous because I have no idea what I’m going to find there. Because I don’t know if I going to take any good photos that day. To be honest I feel scared and insecure when I’m going out to take pictures because I’m very insecure. I don’t feel like I’m good at doing what I do but the feeling that you have when you see a good photo is just amazing. I think that’s because you’re not expecting anything at all but to at least have a good photo. Because having no plan sometimes can make you enjoy the moment in a better way.
The photos that you saw today are from the second time that I went out and do some street photography. I decided to take a small walk on 5th Avenue and see what can I find there. The feeling when I arrived was the same as the first time that I went out. But when I walked a bit that feeling just leave me and I started to enjoy the place and the photos that I was taking. My only plan that day was just to go and take pictures and see what I got. And it was an amazing plan.
So, I just wanted to say that sometimes we tend to overthink things and that makes us start thinking about why we want to do it, but most important we start to think about why we shouldn’t do it. We start thinking about why we shouldn’t go that way or why is better to take the other way. Those are reasons for not doing something. Those thoughts just make us overthink and keep us in the loop of never doing it. Because the plan isn’t ready yet. Probably it would never be. Or it can take more time than expected to be ready. Just don’t overthink things. If you wanna do something just do it. Don’t make a plan, just do it. You need to live the experience and learn about it in the way. Because if you don’t give yourself the chance to do it how are you gonna know the best way of doing it? How are you gonna know if that’s something that you really wanna do? How you can make a plan if you don’t even know what you’re gonna see along the way?
Just do it…