I had a walk around Arnold this afternoon with my Sony RX100VII camera to do some street shots. I photographed the building site for Arnold’s new marketplace. While I was photographing the construction I noticed Lucy who was working at the ‘Refresh’ cafe. She looked fabulous with her bright hair, tattoos and piercings and decided she would make a great stranger for my project. I loitered around the door to the cafe as Lucy was serving a customer eating Al Fresco on the pavement tables.
I introduced myself to her as she made her way back to the door. Lucy agreed straight away and was lovely to photograph. I first of all asked her to stand in the doorway, creating a frame within a frame, I then asked her to move to a menu blackboard outside the cafe as I thought this would make a good backdrop to her story and finally I asked her to move back to the doorway but look over her shoulder towards me. Lucy was getting encouragement from her coworker inside the cafe. I asked if she was OK being moved from position to position, Lucy said it was much better than her next task which was cleaning the ice cream cabinet! I asked Lucy is she was a student, but Lucy told me ‘packed in’ college and chose to work in the cafe instead. The cafe has a reputation for being very friendly and I think Lucy probably has a very big part in the that reputation. I showed Lucy the photos on the back of my camera, we exchanged instagram details and then bumped fists and I went on my way.
Fav. Great narrative to go with this gorgeous capture of Lucy. I agree with Peter about the tattoos. I thought you had captured her before when I saw her, but it must have been another young lady with similar clothing.
@bkbinthecity thanks it is indeed
@pdulis Peter , no I don't think they will . Lucy's tattoos look great .
@christinav Christina Lucy's hair looks great with her dark outfit
Lovely photo.