[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Street photography is just the way Al described it. It is mainly photography that is done literally wandering along the street - capturing people in situations and their plethora of moods. Nothing more, nothing less. It is not contrived, set up or planned. Subjects rarely look at you and smile because they have no idea they're being captured. The reason I bought my OM-D is because I can shoot from the hip without raising the camera to my eye, by flipping the rear touch panel up to compose and take my image from. Zone focusing is another normal technique - where you place the camera in manual focus and pre-set your distance on the lens and in your head. As potential subjects walk in to frame at approximately the right distance, fire away. Frames don't have to be straight - in fact interesting angles are good at times.

It's an art form that has a great many followers around the world.

Some of my examples: