Shooting from the hip "really"

I love the atmosphere downtown in a big city, however it is not always the easiest to capture in a camera. Especially the people. For most of these pictures, I just turned on the smart focusing mode, closed the aperture a hair, and just took some random shots. There are a few where I held it up to my eye to compose, but tried to be quick, so that I didn't get that weird look like, "did you just take my picture?" These were all taken in D.C. and Chicago.

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