Have you ever been contacted by someone you have taken a street photo of?

[thirtysevenways]

I was in the city centre with my children a couple of weeks ago and we watched some students being made to do some unusual things by older students. I assumed it was a Fresher's week/O week activity and they were being embarrassed in front of the general public. They did seem to be having a lot of fun and there was a lot of laughter.

I took a few photos and put up the following one as my photo for the day.



Then last Friday I got a couple of comments on my photo from the last two guys in the photo. I don't know how they found the photo because it wasn't tagged with anything obvious for them searching in French but it was a really pleasant surprise and I was wondering if anyone else had been contacted by someone they had taken a street photo of?

On a side note the photo went from 60 views to over 200 over the weekend. Clearly students have a lot of friends.

[Aaron]

It's never happened to me, but awesome story! I need to get out and take more street!

[Lacy Kent]

It hasn't happened to me either, but that's so rad!

[Jeff Walker]

cool story!

[☠northy]

not here... but one on flickr... i had taken a photo of a street performer posing as marie antoinette and included "marie antoinette" in the tags... she left a comment on the photo :)

I always wonder if someone is going to find a shot of themselves in my street photos and react negatively... but so far, this hasn't happened...

how nice that you got such a good response on this! it does look like they were having a blast!

[Jeff Walker]

I'm not sure what I'd do if the subject of this photo contacted me......

[Taffy]

@thirtysevenways A great story and what fun that they liked being 'captured' on 'film'

[George]

Not quite the same but i was taking photos of a busker and he happened to mention that lots of people took photos but he never got to see them. So i took his email address and sent him them. He replied a few days later with some nice comments. Now i've written that not really the same thing at all...

[thirtysevenways]

@jsw0109 I'm not sure what I would do either Jeff.

[thirtysevenways]

@gwhit123 a nice thing to do and always nice to get positive comments about your photos though.

[thirtysevenways]

@northy I haven't taken many 'street' photos for a few reasons but I felt fairly comfortable that these guys wouldn't mind. Nice that you had a similar experience.

[Dem Mie]

that's great!!!

@jsw0109 you're lucky that little boy didn't say anything lol

[Dave Schofield]

@jsw0109
run

[Dave Schofield]

@thirtysevenways

I never had anyone in a picture find me, but funnily enough a new 365er recently realised she'd bought the camera she was using from me on ebay a few months ago.

[Sam C-R]

@jsw0109 bahaha you'd tell her you loved her flower an sense of fashion so much you couldn't resist snapping a photo of the fashionista! ;) ahh lol!

[Kathryn]

that's a great story

[T.J. =)]

@jsw0109 L...M...F...A...O................

[Jeff Walker]

@chewyteeth LOL... probably exactly what I'd do ;)

@sam_cr that would be a good idea if I didn't run first

[Sam C-R]

@jsw0109 lol yeah running is likely to be the best option as im sure she wouldnt be the type to leg it after you ;)

[Simply Amanda]

@jsw0109 Damnit, Jeff, why do you keep showing that photo of me in my favorite neon gown? It's embarrassing;-).

@thirtysevenways Really cool story!

[Jeff Walker]

@amandalomonaco ;)

[Carol Estes]

Looks like you would get "booped"!!! @jsw0109

[karenpics]

I've actually thought about putting the url for my project on my business card. Then if I take someone's photo and they say they want to see it, I can just send them here.