On This Day – 11 November 2016

My ‘On This Day’ series looks back at a photo shot on that exact date in the past. This image is from 11 November 2016.

Street photography doesn’t always need to be complicated or ‘clever‘. It doesn’t have to be potentially award-wining or portfolio-worthy. It can be simple and just something that catches your eye.

This is definitely a simple enough image. A tall. even huge, soldier walks through the grounds of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It’s not really something, or someone, you see everyday.

It was something a little out of the ordinary.

Perhaps extraordinary.

And that was good enough for me to hit the trigger. No thoughts about how it would work on social media. Not thinking about what competition I could enter it for. Not wondering if it was good enough to make an exhibition.

Street photography can exist inside the small moments of the everyday. It doesn’t have to be some big statement. Just a big soldier will do.