25/100 Strangers (Round III).
I’m quite sure that there should be a Helpline for anyone addicted to the 100 Strangers Project, as I was out again this afternoon looking for another one. I’m completely hooked! I saw a couple of people but they weren’t interested so I thanked them and continued my search. As I turned the corner into the road that has a restaurant in it with a terrace, I saw someone sitting at the table wearing a hat that looked interesting. As I got closer I realised that I recognised the hat and the man wearing it. It was a fellow Flickr member who lives in Etampes and I met for the first time a few years ago. I couldn’t possible call Jacky Corbel a stranger. But I did sit down for a chat with him and his friend.
Eventually after a long chat and a coffee I thought it was time I found this stranger and although some other people who I didn’t know joined us, none of them liked the idea of having their photos taken. So I left them and continued my search. Saw and asked some more people, but they said no too, by which time I had been out far longer than I intended to be, so turned round and headed home. Surely there’d be someone. Just as I turned into the main square I saw someone walking towards me who looked like a hopeful. When he was close enough I asked if he had some time and he asked why, so I explained and he said yes, he’d take part.
Meet Prince, he’s 32 and is a film director. He was born in Togo but lives in Germany and is in France making his first film. I forgot to ask why he was in Etampes, but my guess is that he was looking for locations for his film as Etampes has featured in several films already. He’s not married and hasn’t got any children. When he’s not working he writes his screenplays, watches TV and videos.
I looked around me for a place to take his photos the sun was right behind me, but it was going to make it uncomfortable for Prince. Being a film director and possibly a mind reader too he asked if I wanted to find a different location to take his photo. I do like taking photos of someone who know what he’s doing! So we moved into a small side road and I took my first photo of him. The background wasn’t great, a muddle of exterior air vents. The photo was OK, but I asked if we could move to a more attractive spot. No problem, so I moved him to another side road and took the other three photos. We looked through them and both agreed that the first and second were the best of the four I took. I have chosen the main shot as it was the best and the complimentary photo (my third of him) as he looked very similar in the first two I took and the last. I then asked what he hadn’t liked eating as a child and caught my last photo. He didn’t like a vegetable from Togo called “Gombo.” Apparently when it’s cooked it resembles cooked cheese and he didn’t like the stringiness of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus_esculentus
When I’d finished taking his photo I leant on a wall to write my notes and we chatted about this and that once I’d finished. Prince was really interesting and it was a pleasure to have met him. Another time I find a Film producer to photo I’ll take his word that a horrible looking alley might really be the best place to take his portrait. I gave him the details of where to find his photos and wished him good luck before we both went out separate ways.
100 Strangers (Round I) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157627810663376/
100 Strangers (Round II) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157632333365533/
100 Strangers (Round III) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157634454644547...
100 Strangers Group www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
Merci beaucoup Prince.
25/100 Strangers (Round III).
I’m quite sure that there should be a Helpline for anyone addicted to the 100 Strangers Project, as I was out again this afternoon looking for another one. I’m completely hooked! I saw a couple of people but they weren’t interested so I thanked them and continued my search. As I turned the corner into the road that has a restaurant in it with a terrace, I saw someone sitting at the table wearing a hat that looked interesting. As I got closer I realised that I recognised the hat and the man wearing it. It was a fellow Flickr member who lives in Etampes and I met for the first time a few years ago. I couldn’t possible call Jacky Corbel a stranger. But I did sit down for a chat with him and his friend.
Eventually after a long chat and a coffee I thought it was time I found this stranger and although some other people who I didn’t know joined us, none of them liked the idea of having their photos taken. So I left them and continued my search. Saw and asked some more people, but they said no too, by which time I had been out far longer than I intended to be, so turned round and headed home. Surely there’d be someone. Just as I turned into the main square I saw someone walking towards me who looked like a hopeful. When he was close enough I asked if he had some time and he asked why, so I explained and he said yes, he’d take part.
Meet Prince, he’s 32 and is a film director. He was born in Togo but lives in Germany and is in France making his first film. I forgot to ask why he was in Etampes, but my guess is that he was looking for locations for his film as Etampes has featured in several films already. He’s not married and hasn’t got any children. When he’s not working he writes his screenplays, watches TV and videos.
I looked around me for a place to take his photos the sun was right behind me, but it was going to make it uncomfortable for Prince. Being a film director and possibly a mind reader too he asked if I wanted to find a different location to take his photo. I do like taking photos of someone who know what he’s doing! So we moved into a small side road and I took my first photo of him. The background wasn’t great, a muddle of exterior air vents. The photo was OK, but I asked if we could move to a more attractive spot. No problem, so I moved him to another side road and took the other three photos. We looked through them and both agreed that the first and second were the best of the four I took. I have chosen the main shot as it was the best and the complimentary photo (my third of him) as he looked very similar in the first two I took and the last. I then asked what he hadn’t liked eating as a child and caught my last photo. He didn’t like a vegetable from Togo called “Gombo.” Apparently when it’s cooked it resembles cooked cheese and he didn’t like the stringiness of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus_esculentus
When I’d finished taking his photo I leant on a wall to write my notes and we chatted about this and that once I’d finished. Prince was really interesting and it was a pleasure to have met him. Another time I find a Film producer to photo I’ll take his word that a horrible looking alley might really be the best place to take his portrait. I gave him the details of where to find his photos and wished him good luck before we both went out separate ways.
100 Strangers (Round I) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157627810663376/
100 Strangers (Round II) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157632333365533/
100 Strangers (Round III) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157634454644547...
100 Strangers Group www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
Merci beaucoup Prince.