100 Strangers Project - #2/100 Arthur
This picture is #02 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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Everyone knows that if you want a chess game in Washington, DC anytime of the day or night, Dupont Circle is the place to go. Similar to Washington Square Park in New York, people congregate here at all hours to push pawns.
This is where I met Arthur. As a chess player myself, I found it easy to ask Arthur for a picture because the game is something that we have in common. I also wanted an "action" shot - not something that was posed. I felt I could watch a few games and snap a few pictures of Arthur while he was playing and he was totally fine with that. In this picture Arthur is contemplating his next move.
Because you don't talk while people are playing, I didn't get a chance to ask Arthur much. However, he did tell me he'd been playing chess for "a while". I don't think he lost any of the 6 or 7 games of "speed chess" that I wached him play. Speed chess, also called "blitz" is where each side has 5 minutes to play the entire game - if your time runs out before the game is over, you lose.
I wanted to get a game in with Arthur, but there were a too many people ahead of me and I didn't have time to stay.
I'm pretty happy with this portrait. I decided to take the "training wheels" off and shoot in manual mode. This is my first Flikr upload using this mode!
Thanks Arthur, and I hope to play you sometime soon!
As always, any constructive criticism is welcome!
100 Strangers Project - #2/100 Arthur
This picture is #02 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
_______________________
Everyone knows that if you want a chess game in Washington, DC anytime of the day or night, Dupont Circle is the place to go. Similar to Washington Square Park in New York, people congregate here at all hours to push pawns.
This is where I met Arthur. As a chess player myself, I found it easy to ask Arthur for a picture because the game is something that we have in common. I also wanted an "action" shot - not something that was posed. I felt I could watch a few games and snap a few pictures of Arthur while he was playing and he was totally fine with that. In this picture Arthur is contemplating his next move.
Because you don't talk while people are playing, I didn't get a chance to ask Arthur much. However, he did tell me he'd been playing chess for "a while". I don't think he lost any of the 6 or 7 games of "speed chess" that I wached him play. Speed chess, also called "blitz" is where each side has 5 minutes to play the entire game - if your time runs out before the game is over, you lose.
I wanted to get a game in with Arthur, but there were a too many people ahead of me and I didn't have time to stay.
I'm pretty happy with this portrait. I decided to take the "training wheels" off and shoot in manual mode. This is my first Flikr upload using this mode!
Thanks Arthur, and I hope to play you sometime soon!
As always, any constructive criticism is welcome!