Sam on the K&P Trail
We crossed paths on Kingston's K&P rail trail on a beautiful sunny day. She was hiking north and I was riding south on my bicycle. She paused for me to ask about her hike. Meet Sam.
She explained she was on a 4 day hike from Kingston to the town of Verona (30 km). No stranger to hiking, she said she spends many of her vacations on hiking trails and a 4 day hike is no big deal.
I asked where she overnights and she pulled out what looked like a government topographical map and explained there are spots along the trail that allow hikers to camp. (I have never noticed them.) She said she has a carefully planned itinerary and is carrying all her food, along with her camping gear, in her heavy-looking backpack. "It's only heavy because this is day 1. As I eat the food, it will get lighter and lighter."
When I asked Sam if I could make a portrait of her for my Human Family photo project, she enthusiastically agreed. "I'd be happy to, if, in exchange, you take a photo of me with my camera too. Fair enough?" The deal was struck and the photos were taken.
Sam is 35 and lives in Kingston, but explained she grew up in Canada's Maritime Provinces. When I asked what she does when she's not hiking, she didn't know where to start. "I've been a cook, done helicopter maintenance, I'm an artist, and I'm a caretaker for Belle Island, among other things." When I said, "So, you're a Sam of all trades" she replied "Pretty much."
Sam was friendly but had a serious, somewhat no-nonsense manner. Her message to the project is "People are too attached to technology and screens and not attached enough to each other and nature." She noted that her cell phone is her accommodation to the age of technology. She said she takes lots of nature photos with her phone and showed me a beautiful close-up of an owl. "That was actually taken just with this phone."
Sam was really pleased with the photos I had taken and gave me her email so I can send them. She was most appreciative of my taking a portrait on her phone.
I said I was glad we had met and she said she was too. As she disappeared down the trail, I turned back to get a photo of her en route toward Verona.
Thank you, Sam, for participating in my photo project. You are my 941st submission to The Human Family Group.
You can see more street portraits of strangers and read their stories by visiting The Human Family.
Sam on the K&P Trail
We crossed paths on Kingston's K&P rail trail on a beautiful sunny day. She was hiking north and I was riding south on my bicycle. She paused for me to ask about her hike. Meet Sam.
She explained she was on a 4 day hike from Kingston to the town of Verona (30 km). No stranger to hiking, she said she spends many of her vacations on hiking trails and a 4 day hike is no big deal.
I asked where she overnights and she pulled out what looked like a government topographical map and explained there are spots along the trail that allow hikers to camp. (I have never noticed them.) She said she has a carefully planned itinerary and is carrying all her food, along with her camping gear, in her heavy-looking backpack. "It's only heavy because this is day 1. As I eat the food, it will get lighter and lighter."
When I asked Sam if I could make a portrait of her for my Human Family photo project, she enthusiastically agreed. "I'd be happy to, if, in exchange, you take a photo of me with my camera too. Fair enough?" The deal was struck and the photos were taken.
Sam is 35 and lives in Kingston, but explained she grew up in Canada's Maritime Provinces. When I asked what she does when she's not hiking, she didn't know where to start. "I've been a cook, done helicopter maintenance, I'm an artist, and I'm a caretaker for Belle Island, among other things." When I said, "So, you're a Sam of all trades" she replied "Pretty much."
Sam was friendly but had a serious, somewhat no-nonsense manner. Her message to the project is "People are too attached to technology and screens and not attached enough to each other and nature." She noted that her cell phone is her accommodation to the age of technology. She said she takes lots of nature photos with her phone and showed me a beautiful close-up of an owl. "That was actually taken just with this phone."
Sam was really pleased with the photos I had taken and gave me her email so I can send them. She was most appreciative of my taking a portrait on her phone.
I said I was glad we had met and she said she was too. As she disappeared down the trail, I turned back to get a photo of her en route toward Verona.
Thank you, Sam, for participating in my photo project. You are my 941st submission to The Human Family Group.
You can see more street portraits of strangers and read their stories by visiting The Human Family.