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.