Capture a Stranger

[jgredline]

[Frog]

Nice one, Javier

[jgredline]

Thanks Frog...Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while..

[jgredline]

[Tyson L. Sparks]

[Wild Wassa]

The Shouting Stranger.





I put his attitude down to having a Seasonal Affective Disorder, ... thanks to winter. It is so cold here, I could shout.

Warren.

[Greg McCary]

[jgredline]

At my favorite place to eat Mexican Food!!!!
Kodak HD film

[Greg McCary]

Javier I could eat mexican food everyday. Nice...

[Wild Wassa]

The Capture of a Stranger Wearing a Red Coat.





Warren.

[danic]

Posted this in the film section until jgredlne suggested it should go in here.

[jgredline]

Here is an image I took with my cell phone. Not bad really for what it is....


Here is an old one I found as I am still cleaning out pics.


Here is a recent one.

[Wild Wassa]

The Sofala Pub on ANZAC Day. Total strangers. One of the Brothers wasn't happy having a Gubbu stick a camera in his face.





Sofala Pub is over the top. Sofala is a old gold mining town ... "make that another three Victor Bravos."

A Derro Warming the Polished Granite of a Bank. He was talking to me but wouldn't look at the camera.





I couldn't buy him a Victor Bravo, so I gave him a couple of bucks.

Six Young Strangers.





It is all in the eye contact.

The Proper Businessman Stranger.





A shot called 'Stranger Danger' ... is probably not too many exposures away now.

Warren.

[jgredline]

A few more as I clean out hard drive and put them in storage...

[jgredline]

Still cleaning out my computer. Here are a couple more..
BW 400 CN film

[Wild Wassa]

I went to Faggotville in Northern New South Wales, inland from Balina. When I arrived I went straight to a plantation to take photographs, rather than cruise the streets. I'd gone to Faggotville to photograph an avocado plantation ... I like avocados.

I set up the shot, to do an HDR. I intended to do many exposures over an extended period, from sun-up to sun-down, including taking a time exposure showing star trails moving from horizon towards the azimuth ... all taken to enhance the HDR image.

All was going extremely well until I was assulted by an aggressive female stranger ... who could have been the other half of the plantation. One would have hoped the owner/manager of a plantation would have told the 'Memsab' that the plantation was being photographed by a camera wallah , after talking to the photographer ... but what are small overlooked details?

The woman drove up to me and the tripod in the evening (shock horror) in a most life threatening way. skids to a hault about a metre from the tripod with my Canon 300mm quartz optic on it and demands to know what I'm doing. She got out of the car, grabbed the tripod and demanded to know what I was doing, "Taking photographs of your orchard, as I have been commissioned to do," .... which appeared to be the most inept thing to say at the time.

The firebrand Shewolf who had grabbed the camera and tripod, thrust them towards me and said, "I didn't ask you to photograph this place." To which I replied, in an equally inept way, similar to my first lame excuse, "No you didn't, your husband(?) did!"

She then drove off in a huff back towards the plantation house. She was very dark, as dark as ... all adding to the ambience of my interrupted shot.

I then put the camera back, going on the marks in the gravel, to complete the time exposure ... but I got the precise alignment wrong.

Here is the shot ... it isn't a shot of a stranger, it is a shot with the unhelpful collaboration of a stranger ... even better. My latest shot.





HDRs out of alignment, display interesting posibilities for 'stars'. I haven't removed the power lines either, as I originally intended ... they also add to the horror.

Warren.

[Frog]

This is getting crazy about people and pictures..I hope you have some contact with her husband and get reimbursed for your time.

A "Faggotville" in this country would be the butt of many jokes.

[Wild Wassa]

"Faggotville" in this country would be the butt of many jokes."

Frog, , Language and life is beautiful, hey?

Before I post my next two shots Frog, I'd like to say, your Mount Rainier landscape is delightful. You made the mountain look safe. I've read about Mt Rainier.

My daughter plays in the kid's Wind Symphany here in the Territory. Lucy is a trumpeter. Last night was the yearly musical feast, so I photographed kids I hadn't seen before in the wind symphany to stay true to this thread.

Strangers blowing up a storm.





... all storms need some thunder.





Tech details of the above shots, ISO 1600 hand held. 1/6th sec at f5.6 with image stabilization activated on Canon's 17-85mm EF-S Lens on a D40. I had a lot of failures ... about 160+ failures.


Warren.

[jgredline]

[Lori11]

cleaning out stuff ....... no attitudes? It was Bike week after all LOL

[Greg McCary]

[Lori11]

Oh heavens! LOL

[jgredline]

[jgredline]

Kinda has that abbey road feel about it.


Who is scarier

[Old Timer]

Here is a stranger from another time.