(gentle upbeat music) - The reason I really am attracted to street photography is I like the chaos of it, and I like the unplanned things that can happen on the street.

That really appeals to me.

(gentle upbeat music) Where I'm shooting, what I look for is just interesting people, and Lower Broadway in Nashville is a gold mine because you can walk around the same two or three blocks, and every time you come around, it's another thousand different people.

And it's just the diversity of people.

And, you know, the thing that makes it magic down there to shoot street, and easy to shoot street, is you've got thousands of tourists coming here that are spending, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars a night on a hotel.

They spent a month or two picking out their outfits.

They're walking around.

They're in their own reality show, and you point a camera at 'em and they're like, (camera clicking) "Wow, I'm famous, you know (laughs) So, oddly enough, I've never had a negative reaction.

I've never had anybody, "Please delete that," you know, which is kind of the kindest way they could deal with it.

But it's never happened because, you know, they want to be seen.

(gentle country guitar music) I was lucky enough to have a really great photography teacher.

Famous guy, Garry Winogrand, was my art teacher, and the street photography, in general, cuts across a lot of different art movements, you know, dada, surrealism, cubism, I mean, all those kinds of things will pop up in street photography.

Abstraction, and especially, you know, shooting the things through the window Downtown.

That's, you know, very much abstraction.

(gentle harmonica music) Oh, I started shooting the window reflections like, from the beginning, mainly because if, you know Lower Broadway and Downtown, all the honky tonks, the bands play in the window, in the front.

You know, the action's all up front, Downtown, you know, the players.

And then you've got, you know, the signage in the background and cars and people and reflect.

I mean, it's just, you know, massive amounts of information in a frame that comes through those windows.

And, again, I like the abstraction of it.

For aspiring, you know, photographers, just get out and start shooting.

Find a little camera that's easy to use, and go for it.

(gentle guitar music) - [Narrator] This "NPT Arts Break" is made possible by the generous support of the Martha Rivers Ingram Advised Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.