The featured image’s young boys were zipping along a typically-narrow, lively street.
I was standing just-inside the “Royal Baths” – a meticulously restored building which is one of the walled city’s greatest treasures. (eventually, this series will “explore” the Shahi Hammam)
Presumably, “minimum legal driving age” rules are not rigorously enforced in Lahore!
Even when not armed with a camera, I particularly like to look out, from inside – most especially when I am in a culturally rich, “historic” urban place.
Often, the “inside v outside” play of light is interesting
Windows/doorways/arches/niches are frequently worthy of attention in their own right, and they usually offer a variety of effective “framing” options for whatever is visible, just outside.
Being just on the inside of a building, courtyard or alcove offers another benefit: the photographer is likely to be “invisible” to persons in the also-interesting street, outside.
Such a vantage point can prove highly advantageous to photographers who prefer unposed, candid photos of people who are going about their actual lives, rather than “performative” snaps of folks who are “mugging for the camera”, or made uncomfortable by its presence.
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Photographic footnote/suggestion
In such locations, as you look through your camera’s viewfinder, walk left/right, back/forward, and raise/lower your stance.
The particular nature/quality of the potential photographic “view” will change – probably, much more than you may imagine – with every little move you make.
Actively decide what is most especially your photo’s raison d’être, and how much/how little exposure – and how fast/slow a shutter speed – would best serve it.
For example, when taking the featured image I intentionally chose a relatively slow shutter speed of 1/200 of a second.
I wanted the boys to be readily apparent as their individual selves, but did not wish their motion to be “frozen”, entirely.
I also wanted the foodstuffs to be in focus.
Achieving both objectives would have been impossible if I had selected a fast shutter speed.
That would have “frozen” the motion.
It also would have drastically reduced the depth of the focus-field, because the fast speed would have necessitated a wider-open lens: thereby, either the boys or the goods would have been thrown “right out of focus”.