This photo is all about the colour, although I did actually do a mono version of the shot too.
I went to Barnsley today to watch my team Bolton Wanderers play Barnsley in what can only be described in football terms as a "relegation six pointer"
Anyway more about the football later, Meet Stuart who I met outside Barnsley's Oakwell stadium collecting donations for "Cancer Research"
I knew Stuart would make a great stranger but walked past him as I wanted to get my bearings as to where the "away end" was situated.
Having worked out where the Bolton fans were allocated, I walked back towards where stuart and his bucket were standing and asked him to be one of my strangers.
Barnsley play in red and a lot of the outside of the stadium is painted red, Red brick walls and in this picture the red exit doors
Stuart was organising a "white collar boxing" event in Barnsley. White Collar Boxing is where male and female beginners receive 8 weeks of free training and at the end of the training take part in a charity amateur boxing match against fellow participants.
Stuart told me that last year they raised over £1500 for cancer research.
Stuart looked quite serious while I was taking his picture, but when I asked him if he was a boxer, he burst out laughing and I caught this fabulous smile. The answer to my question was "No" :)
If you want to know more about ultra white collar boxing, see the link below:
https://www.ultrawhitecollarboxing.co.uk/about/
I hope you like this shot of Stuart, I think he makes a great stranger pic.
Thanks for being stranger 127 Stuart, good luck with your event and charity.
Oh and the football. A tense affair. We were awful in the first half and were 1 nil down at the interval. Roared on by over 3000 Wanderers fans we scored two late goals to go 2 - 1 up, only for Barnsley to equalise in the third minute of added on time ! Such is the drama of football !
To find out more and see pictures taken by other photographers, look at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
https://www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
My own strangers can be seen here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/57144254@N08/albums/72157657822400168