My "street photography" involves getting consent at least 90% of the time but I practice an unusual form of "character photography" where I "go out" like this

My "street photography" involves getting consent at least 90% of the time but I practice an unusual form of "character photography" where I "go out" like this https://mastodon.social/@UP8/117049900145791976 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/117049900145791976 to get people to smile. There are certainly the grey areas, like the time I was taking pictures of a race and somebody who (I think) wasn't in the race did something incredibly athletic and beautiful to (I think) avoid getting photographed but they looked so awesome doing it I published it anyway. Once I got a complaint because I was "talking to high school students" at a festival but another event I had a group of several elementary schoolers see me and immediately start ordering me around [1] and "can I check in with your parents?" seemed like a real buzzkill. [1] I wrote "The user manual for the Fox-Photographer" for adults, they didn't need it!