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Stranger 54 of 100: Adam
After photographing Mariah I was on the hunt for another stranger. Recently I have challenged myself to try and even out photographing men and women as I tend to be drawn to female subjects (mostly because women wear so many bright colors). So my objective was to find a male subject on a simple background to really make him jump off the page. I was wondering around for about 30 minutes when I walked into a coffee shop and grabbed a cup of coffee. On my way out Adam was leaving the shop as well. When I turned around and saw the sharp dressed man and knew I had to get an image. I asked if he was in a hurry and he told me he was on his way to a meeting about four blocks away but would definitely participate if we had a few minutes at the final destination.
As we begin to walk he told me that he was a professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University (MSU) in Denver. He was on his way to a local coffee shop to meet with a writer/director of plays at the large playhouse Denver. I had told him that I was so pleased that he agreed to the project and I that I find that I have much better luck in larger cities and love to do this project when I travel. I loved his response, he told me, “Maybe you have better luck in bigger cities because of the anonymity. In big cities you are less nervous to talk to a stranger because somewhere in side you know that you will never see them again”. As you can tell from the image Adam was a very excitable and high energy person. For the portrait he asked if he should smile and I told him that even though I only talked with him briefly he looked like a smiler. He told me that I was right and proceeded to smile for the portrait.
Thank you Adam for the four block conversation and being a part of my project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page (www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/)
Also find out more about the Human Family Project and see pictures taken by other photographers see the Flickr Group ( www.flickr.com/groups/thhumanfamily/)
Stranger 54 of 100: Adam
After photographing Mariah I was on the hunt for another stranger. Recently I have challenged myself to try and even out photographing men and women as I tend to be drawn to female subjects (mostly because women wear so many bright colors). So my objective was to find a male subject on a simple background to really make him jump off the page. I was wondering around for about 30 minutes when I walked into a coffee shop and grabbed a cup of coffee. On my way out Adam was leaving the shop as well. When I turned around and saw the sharp dressed man and knew I had to get an image. I asked if he was in a hurry and he told me he was on his way to a meeting about four blocks away but would definitely participate if we had a few minutes at the final destination.
As we begin to walk he told me that he was a professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University (MSU) in Denver. He was on his way to a local coffee shop to meet with a writer/director of plays at the large playhouse Denver. I had told him that I was so pleased that he agreed to the project and I that I find that I have much better luck in larger cities and love to do this project when I travel. I loved his response, he told me, “Maybe you have better luck in bigger cities because of the anonymity. In big cities you are less nervous to talk to a stranger because somewhere in side you know that you will never see them again”. As you can tell from the image Adam was a very excitable and high energy person. For the portrait he asked if he should smile and I told him that even though I only talked with him briefly he looked like a smiler. He told me that I was right and proceeded to smile for the portrait.
Thank you Adam for the four block conversation and being a part of my project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page (www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/)
Also find out more about the Human Family Project and see pictures taken by other photographers see the Flickr Group ( www.flickr.com/groups/thhumanfamily/)