Been traveling recently and on previous trips I've always been a bit too lazy to bring my mirrorless out, and mostly just been relying on my phone to take some quick snaps

But since i want to actually take photography a bit more seriously as a hobby, I've realized a lot of the time I'm actually just standing around

Either standing around waiting for just the right lighting (eg clouds to pass, or angle of the sun, to cast the right shadows etc), waiting for the right subject to pass by (someone on a bike, the right color of car), or maybe waiting until a place isn't as crowded

If I'm traveling with people, often times I don't have the luxury of waiting around because we got places to hit.…