I am quite enjoying the exercises for the second part of the people and place course, I have never really done any street photography in terms of people before, or at least in a more organised way where this was the primary aim.

I still have yet to ask to take a photo of a stranger which is the next logical step from the exercises. At some point I would like to continue these exercises with work of my own, taking images to certain themes. I was thinking something along the lines of a monthly challenge (timing depending on how much time I have spare) like hats, redheads, people in car windows, suits where I go out and capture images along a certain theme for a week or something.

The other side is capturing gesture or 'something of that person'. I guess this can come into putting something of myself in a picture. To look for a way to convey what I see in an individual when I take a picture, what has attracted me to take a picture of that person in the first place.
In the recent short documentary of the Sartorialist he (Scott Schuman) described taking photos like falling in love a little. The question to pursue becomes how to identify what attracts us to a particular subject, and how to capture or convey that in a photograph.