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I know most of you won't see this photo because of Flickrs contacts bug, but I still wanted to post it because it's one of my favorites. Sure it's setup, but this was an out take of another shot.
Sometimes the outtakes are better.
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So yesterday we had to head down to UCLA medical center (yes, where Britney Spears went) to have something done. I was with the boys in the waiting area, next to this long hall, and a woman with young daughter go walking by... just giggling and having fun. Then the dad, who seemed quite a bit older, 5'5", dark leather jacket, dark complexion, on his cell phone with VERY projecting voice, "OKAY... YES, THEN CALL ME, OKAY..."
Looks over at me, I *head nod*
They come back down the hall together a couple minutes later. Mom goes into an office, leaving dad and daughter alone.
"Dad, lets play Red Light, Green Light".
"How is that played, sweetheart?" (she tells him)
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"A RED Light... now it's a GREEN light!"
"Red light again, okay GREEN LIGHT!"
Almost shouting, but not really. Just a loud, projecting voice.
I see our 8 year old playing along with him, starting and stopping on his command.
About 20' away I say to him, "who doesnt' like a good game of red light, green light?"
"YES, THEY ALLLL LIKE IT". Not yelling, but not using his 'hospital voice' either. Smiling back at me, noticing my son playing along.
Nurse walks by, turns and looks at the man, and keeps going. The nurse then goes to the counter around the corner (close to where I'm standing) and whispers something about the guy in the leather jacket.
They continue Red Light, Green Light in the hall. Eventually the mom comes out, and then head to the elevator and leave.
10 minutes later, non chalant, I go to the counter and ask the nurse,
"So, who did the nurse say that guy in the leather coat was?"
"Oh, that's Al Pacino"
The girl was his daughter, and the mom was his... ladyfriend of many years, Beverly D'Angelo - Mrs. Griswold of Vacation fame.
Bottom line - Caiden gets to tell his friends years from now, that he got to play Red Light, Green light with Al Pacino
Okay first : I found this the hardest FGR challenge yet. poor me with my 18-55 kit lense ...I think I need a fiddy..or better skills - I had an extremely difficult job trying to get my bokeh (like Amadika I hauled out my Christmas lights).
So enjoy!
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This was taken on Broadway, near the southwest corner of 97th Street
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009-2014 (as shown in this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set)), this Flickr set)), and this Flickr set)): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project six years ago, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep my camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are plenty of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past six years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... unfortunately, there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
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El ombligo del mundo,” The bellybutton of the world - View from on top of San Pedro Volcano overlooking Lake Aititlan - Guatemala...
My weekend started on Thursday after work when I met up with Abbey in the fields around here for a quick shoot. 1 hour, 4 outfits. At the wedding the previous weekend she was a bridesmaid who had a little too much to drink. I offered to use her camera to take some fun group shots of her and the girls, and upon giving it back to her, the camera dropped and broke. Could have been either of our faults, but since I felt bad I said I’d shoot some new headshots and promo shots for her emerging entertainment career. I was just a “wedding photographer” so I’m not sure she was expecting much. We started to shoot and as I was showing her some of the photos as we went along, I knew when she liked them as she would hit me on the arm and say SHUT UP!! I suppose everyone expresses happiness differently.
Happy pre-Tuesday