Street Photography or Landscape Photography: Which Is Harder?

“Here’s your photo question of the day.”

Which is harder: taking an avowed, dedicated street photographer, dropping them in the wild to shoot landscape and wildlife? Or taking a landscape photographer and dropping them downtown to shoot street?

Think about what each one demands. Street wants lightning-fast reflexes, social bravery, and the instinct to catch a gesture that is gone in half a second. Landscape wants endurance, precision planning, 4 AM wake-ups, and the humility to wait hours for clouds that never break.

Different muscles. Different patience. Different kinds of suffering.

Here is my take, and I have a longer video coming on this: “You can’t do both. You do one or the other, but you can’t do both.”

Okay, now argue with me. Drop your answer in the comments and we will chat about it later.