http://www.in-public.com/NickTurpin/image/1524

The image above is just so awesome it ain't funny. THAT is why you always have the camera in your hand and adjusted to the environment about you.... so that when the decisive moment comes - it is yours.

Haha love this one! http://www.in-public.com/NickTurpin/image/1525 and this one http://www2.in-public.com/NickTurpin/image/1551
A few of them though seem incredibly flukey and accidental...

The first is chance - the second is knowing what could happen, thinking ahead and waiting for the prey. Both valid styles to get the shot.

Wasn't there some argument about this a month or so back???

Great site, will look more later. Thanks for sharing.

Indeed they are. If you kick yourself out of the front door, that is not luck.

Cool! Seeing that many street shots en masse ( I looked at loads of stuff! ) is interesting, coz i found i soon got tired of the kind of laboured jokes like the 'poster echoing the action in front of it in some way'. . . and the oh so ironic shop signs. . Those are the standard, mother in law gags of street photography it seems. Looking through the galleries was a bit like sitting through ten stand up routines in a row in a comedy club. Only the really witty stuff lasted the distance. And the ones that also had random surreal abstractions, or plays of shapes. Something a bit trickier than the more obvious gags. There were a stack of really inspired and inspiring shots in there. I found myself a teensy bit suspicious of yer man Turpin, probably just cynicism on my part, and I know he puts in the hours and the shoe leather so I shouldn't dis the man. That bald head and helmet shot was very well seen.
Re-enforces how amazingly good Elliott Erwitt, HCB, Kertezs, William Klein, Friedlander and Winogrand were. . imho of course. But then we only see the absolute cream of their work.

That's a good site you found, food for thought and lots of inspiraton. duly bookmarked. Thanks Richard.

Super !!!

Excellent! Thanks for sharing Richard! :)

thanks for sharing
great moment

Great website. Street photography is happy accidents.

Matt Stuart has long been a favourite of mine. He has a great eye and you know that the photos are completely real.

There is a podcast or interview somewhere (I think Nick's blog) where he alluded to Mark or someone else having cloned out a bird and therefore for him - ruined the shot philosophy...