Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Rick showed: > Subject: [Leica] PAW 48 and 49 posted >> Week 48 >> Youngsters sometimes get beached at grown-up events: >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/album334/48- >> reception.jpg.html> >>> Week 49 >> Three buddies share a bench on a warm December day: >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/album334/49-cane- >> crew.jpg.html> > > > Hi Rick, > Both interesting photographs. > #48 is just the kind of expression when a young one as you say.... > >>get beached at grown-up events<<< > > They are there but really would like to be some where else, so > cling tight to a parent or grandparent. At least they know whom > they've got a grab on. Some what like a "security blanket." :-) It's almost worth taking them to something like that to feel them cling to you. > > #49. Love it!!! :-) Such nice friendly expressions. They create a > feeling you want to go up, introduce yourself and begin a good old > fashion chin wag with them. Subject not relevant just life in > general. > > And I'd bet a hundred dollars between them they've an amazing past > to talk about. They sure beat the scowls we encounter some times > when photographing strangers. :-( I've really come to love that part of Raleigh. A main street in Raleigh was turned into a pedestrian mall 30 years ago. It became dark and unused. They just reopened it as a street this summer. It has much more pedestrian traffic NOW. I love to go downtown (that dome behind the cane crew is the NC State Capitol c.1833) and walk and talk and take pictures. 14 of this year's PAWs have been taken with a few blocks of the cane crew. You can see the Governor, a wino, school kids on field trips and clerks on lunch break all milling around together. The cane crew was taken less than 100 feet from the hot dog lady a couple of weeks ago. I'm starting to feel like a member of the neighborhood. It's getting less like shooting strangers now. Thanks for looking. Ric > > good on you. > ted > > > Grant Photography Limited > 1817 Feltham Road > Victoria BC V8N 2A4 > 250-477-2156 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information