Interesting shooting today outside on the strip: first around the Stratosphere, and then later around the Fashion show mall. Two different worlds, with different views, and different errands, and different folks trying to get by. Below are some of the folks and faces I found-- telling similar and different stories that are really linked together by our commonalities-what worries us; what we need; what makes us smile; what we enjoy; what we are adverse to; where we are vulnerable; the cracks where we let others in... the 40 mm is a wonderful lens. It forces one to go close and be near. To examine more. I hope you had good shooting.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Week 7 Las Vegas Prime Document
The Las Vegas Strip! Where the tourists go and the locals claim not to. So many people out there -passing, swirling through, pausing at various resting points, and just being. Some pass by sadly, some sweetly, some innocently. Some pass by angry; some threatening, some with a hint of desperation in their eyes. Some with great smiles; some running a con; some trying to get by; some shopping; some gambling; some on business; some just living their lives and carrying on the habits and routines of their days. All with stories to tell, or stories in the making, or stories they could tell if asked; stories perhaps to be caught and shared with the lens of a camera -- or, perhaps not.
Trying to catch those stories and looks; or to meet an eye directly and capture an open, unscripted moment kind of hooks me, after I've snapped a poignant face or two out of a couple hundred shots and finally forgot the really nasty guy who yelled at me. Once in a while something else may happen too, as when a young lady visiting from Canada caught up with me and asked why I had taken her photo. She hoped it was because I thought she was pretty... Or when little kids will still play peek and boo with the camera. While searching for shiny wonder in the colors of the fountains and the reflections of the streets, this week I found intrigue in the stories of the faces of the people on the Strip .
Hope you also had good shooting.
Trying to catch those stories and looks; or to meet an eye directly and capture an open, unscripted moment kind of hooks me, after I've snapped a poignant face or two out of a couple hundred shots and finally forgot the really nasty guy who yelled at me. Once in a while something else may happen too, as when a young lady visiting from Canada caught up with me and asked why I had taken her photo. She hoped it was because I thought she was pretty... Or when little kids will still play peek and boo with the camera. While searching for shiny wonder in the colors of the fountains and the reflections of the streets, this week I found intrigue in the stories of the faces of the people on the Strip .
Hope you also had good shooting.
Monday, October 6, 2014
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