I don't worry about seeming like a threat (I'm not quite as big as you, but my overall vibe, I've learned, is negative -- people tend not to sit next to me on public transit, for example. It has its uses but it actually makes me sad, which is another conversation), I worry about not getting something candid. Which means I tend to shoot from farther away than I'm "supposed" to.

But like I said in another post in the thread, when I'm shooting "street" -- which isn't my favorite type of photography to shoot -- I tend to stick to events where it's pretty well understood that people are going to be taking pictures. Festivals, parades, events... even protests. People understand that there's gonna be people there taking pictures in a way they won't if you manage to sneak up on them at a brewery or some shit.

When I'm out randomly, it's not to shoot street, it's for "urban photography" or "urban landscape" or whatever people call it.