Does the topic of a photograph make the photographer better or worse? Is that topic too easy to be mastered? Would you consider him better just for shooting street shots?
Imho just going out of the city and shooting his best pics shows that at least he put enough interest on photography to get up early and do a long walking way, take his time to take his shots… and that’s in my honest opinion more merits worthy than waking up at 10am, have breakfast and walk your city to take street shots.
But that again, is my own humble opinion.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.