¶Sometimes street photography is a game of walking around and finding interesting scenes and people. Sometimes it's a game of sitting still and waiting for the interesting thing you see in your mind to enter the scene you've designed with your eye. William Shum played the waiting game to get one of the photographs in his City Corners series of photos of Hong Kong, which recently won First Place in the Photo Essay Category of the 15th Annual Mobile Photography Awards.

¶Shum, whose shots of Hong Kong made him a winner in the 2025 Mobile Photography awards, had breakfast in the area before his day of street photography, then set up burst mode on his iPhone 13 Pro Max to capture several frames in quick succession. He waited on the far side of the road for half an hour for a taxi to pass by.

¶Click through to the article to see William's photograph.