20/100 Mark
I spent most of the weekend brooding over a seeming dead end in the 100 Strangers project. I twisted my brain around trying to think of a different place where multiple people would congregate in a relaxed atmosphere, and be amenable to being photographed. Finally, I realized the place I sought was all around me. I went to where people were fishing.
At the spillway of a local lake, I found Mark. I asked him how the fish were biting as I took a few shots of the scenery. He wasn't having much luck, but he had plenty of beer. We chatted about how the kingfishers down below were well fed, and I asked Mark what he did for a living.
Mark is a roughneck. He works offshore in the oil industry. Business has not been too good over the past year, and he has turned to fishing and crawdad trapping to help put food on the table for his family. He said his family was doing fine, but he misses going offshore.
As the sun began to fall, we watched a pilot fly loops in his prop driven airplane overhead, leaving streams of smoke behind him. Finally, I asked Mark for a photograph or two, explaining the 100 strangers project to him. When I told him it was concieved to help photographers get past the fear of asking a stranger for a photograph, Mark laughed and said "Hell, I wouldn't have a problem with that, just ask. What are they going to do? Say no?"
I asked Mark to turn a bit so his face would be lit by the setting sun, and I took a few frames as the lightning bugs were starting to flash. It was then that I noticed the catfish on his arm.
Mark is number twenty in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Nikon D200 50mm ƒ1.8
The 100 Strangers website can be found at 100strangers.com/
20/100 Mark
I spent most of the weekend brooding over a seeming dead end in the 100 Strangers project. I twisted my brain around trying to think of a different place where multiple people would congregate in a relaxed atmosphere, and be amenable to being photographed. Finally, I realized the place I sought was all around me. I went to where people were fishing.
At the spillway of a local lake, I found Mark. I asked him how the fish were biting as I took a few shots of the scenery. He wasn't having much luck, but he had plenty of beer. We chatted about how the kingfishers down below were well fed, and I asked Mark what he did for a living.
Mark is a roughneck. He works offshore in the oil industry. Business has not been too good over the past year, and he has turned to fishing and crawdad trapping to help put food on the table for his family. He said his family was doing fine, but he misses going offshore.
As the sun began to fall, we watched a pilot fly loops in his prop driven airplane overhead, leaving streams of smoke behind him. Finally, I asked Mark for a photograph or two, explaining the 100 strangers project to him. When I told him it was concieved to help photographers get past the fear of asking a stranger for a photograph, Mark laughed and said "Hell, I wouldn't have a problem with that, just ask. What are they going to do? Say no?"
I asked Mark to turn a bit so his face would be lit by the setting sun, and I took a few frames as the lightning bugs were starting to flash. It was then that I noticed the catfish on his arm.
Mark is number twenty in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Nikon D200 50mm ƒ1.8
The 100 Strangers website can be found at 100strangers.com/