No, not really. But I guess it could be. Street photography to me is documenting life and mostly this is done when the parties aren't aware or truly cognizant of your presence. Although, sometimes someone noticing you can make for a very nice image. There's a whole subgroup of us street photographers and there's countless "rules", most of them are ridiculous (like the avoidance of using a telephoto lens). There shouldn't be any rules to taking candid pictures of the small details of life. Sometimes people don't mind me taking a picture of them, others get mad.
I set up about 1:00am near the 24 convenience store and took pictures of people as they walked up. Some falling over drunk, some getting booze, cigarettes, some people coming off work and getting dinner. They have a metal gate up to protect them as it's not a nice part of town. This is Rafiq, one of the guys who works there.
After finding a group and getting pretty close to them (I used my 10-20mm Sigma wide angle so I had to get about 5 feet for something decent). This girl noticed me, started yelling at me and hid behind this guy below and flipped me the bird. She thought I was a police office and after explaining I wasn't, it's just a hobby, everything was all good.
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