Day 64 - Fred
I stayed close to home tonight and took a walk down to check out the Friday night scene in Hermosa Beach; the town where I live in southern California.
There is a club there, Cafe Boogaloo that usually has some pretty good live music most Friday and Saturday nights and I thought I might have a chance to shoot the band or catch a good street portrait.
As I walked up to the club I immediately noticed this sharp-dressed man standing on the sidewalk, talking to one of the doormen. I stood around for no more than a minute when I asked him how he was doing and he answered back: "Just fine; how are you?"
"I'm OK, thanks. Would you mind if I took your picture?", I replied. "No", he said; "Not at all".
I asked him his name and he said it was Fred and so I introduced myself and we shook hands.
As I started to move so as to position him with his back towards the street, I asked him where he was from and he said that he was from Arkansas and that he had been out here since 1954. "The year I was born", I told him.
So we talked a bit more and I asked if he was here for the music. Yes, he told me. He liked to come down and dance with the ladies, so that "... I can show them a good time for the evenings".
At that I gave Fred a quick nod of understanding and asked him; "What else is there"? "Nothing", he smiled with his reply.
With that I stepped back and took this shot and knew that no matter what else I might see the rest of the night that todays 365 image was in the camera.
Day 64 - Fred
I stayed close to home tonight and took a walk down to check out the Friday night scene in Hermosa Beach; the town where I live in southern California.
There is a club there, Cafe Boogaloo that usually has some pretty good live music most Friday and Saturday nights and I thought I might have a chance to shoot the band or catch a good street portrait.
As I walked up to the club I immediately noticed this sharp-dressed man standing on the sidewalk, talking to one of the doormen. I stood around for no more than a minute when I asked him how he was doing and he answered back: "Just fine; how are you?"
"I'm OK, thanks. Would you mind if I took your picture?", I replied. "No", he said; "Not at all".
I asked him his name and he said it was Fred and so I introduced myself and we shook hands.
As I started to move so as to position him with his back towards the street, I asked him where he was from and he said that he was from Arkansas and that he had been out here since 1954. "The year I was born", I told him.
So we talked a bit more and I asked if he was here for the music. Yes, he told me. He liked to come down and dance with the ladies, so that "... I can show them a good time for the evenings".
At that I gave Fred a quick nod of understanding and asked him; "What else is there"? "Nothing", he smiled with his reply.
With that I stepped back and took this shot and knew that no matter what else I might see the rest of the night that todays 365 image was in the camera.