In 1994 / 1995 I was in the US Navy aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. We ported in UAE, Greece, Spain, Italy, Israel, France, etc. I saw many amazing things and took hundreds of pictures of things that I’ll never see again and some things that don’t even exist anymore.

In 2018 we had a flood due to hurricane Florence and almost every photo / negative I’ve ever taken in my life was destroyed, along with almost everything else that I owned. :(

If you think it’s bad now, you should have been around during the film camera shop days. Most every camera shop owner was in the business for no other reason than trying to talk girls into getting their clothes off.

So in the past a trick I’ve used is to let the camera hang by the strap, and have a bulb in my pocket. When I see someone interesting I aim in the general direction and snap the photo. This accomplishes two things - not only do you not take your subject out of the moment, the random nature of not using the view finder gives you some very cool angles.