My second stranger from Nottingham Pride. I was in Hockley, following the parade, when I noticed a young lady by the entrance to “The Hockley Arts Club”. Meet Elaine, who was tying a rainbow flag on the door. The entrance is a really cool location, I’ve shot a couple of strangers in the entrance before. BTW the “Arts Club” is a bar not a club for Arts !
I thought that Elaine would make a great stranger, so I caught her eye and asked her if I could take her photo, she said “yes” straight away and asked if we should do the photo with the flag as a backdrop. I said that was a good idea, so she told me to wait a minute until she had put it in position.
Elaine was struggling to hang it, so I went to help her. When I say help her, I suggested a way of hanging it, “I can tell you’ve done this before” she said, I smiled and said “not really”
Anyway, after tying it to the door knob she was ready. Elaine told me she was a waitress in the bar and had been working there just over a month, I asked her to step back into the entrance as she would be framed by the walls and it would be a great set of images.
Judge for yourself if the photo works, I really like it. Elaine said she would love to see the photos, so I gave Elaine a card and told her to contact me. She said she would tell her colleagues in the bar she’d been photographed. Within a few minutes of meeting Elaine, I got an email from her asking me to send her the photos. I sent them later that night and she replied to me saying she loved them.
yes it works really well. The perfect backdrop for her skin colour and clothing. Really enjoy the purple scissors too! She looks like a lovely young woman.
Love her hair & the flag behind works beautifully!