As a group, we travelled to St. Malo to test our abilities using Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment” technique, taking part in live street photography throughout the town for the day.

I ended up taking hundreds of images over the 5 or so hours we spent there, covering different areas such as the castle walls, the restaurants, and narrow alleyways, most of which captured the bustling community at St. Malo at its peak.

Once I’d sorted through the larger half of the photos, I gave my best-unedited photographs a star rating on Lightroom Classic, only keeping the highest-rated images for editing.

After editing a small portion of the photographs, I was already left with a wide range of compositions that a few I believe capture the concept of the “decisive moment” perfectly, and imitate Cartier-Bresson’s style. I think this trip was a great opportunity to take a large amount of images that I’m definitely going to be using for projects in the future, and a chance to develop my skills and really focus on my weaknesses in photography.