The day started bright and sunny yesterday and I decided to take my camera to the almshouses at St. Cross for a little photoshoot.
As I parked in Five Bridges Road, I noticed two young men get out of a gleaming orange car parked just a bit further up the road, One of them had a camera and a tripod, so naturally I was a bit curious.
While I was gathering together all my stuff, they were setting up the tripod and taking photos of the car. I got out and said hello as I walked up to them.
I'm afraid I was obviously slightly abrupt in my approach (let's put it down to beginning to be a bit excited at nearing my goal of 100 strangers' portraits, but I should really now know better!) because they both turned to me looking a bit startled.
Once we had established that I was not going to complain about where they had parked the car, or indeed, complain about anything, they were both quite happy to agree to have their photo taken.
Today I'm posting my shot of Seán and tomorrow I shall post his friend, Sam's portrait.
I asked Seán if he would stand just in front of the trees lining the edge of the road and checked there was no large blown-out area of light in the portrait and took a couple of pics. I was pleased with both photos but preferred this one. The b&w conversion suggested itself to me later.
I showed the shots to Seán on the camera screen and he said, 'That's a good camera." He expressed an interest in seeing my other portraits so I explained to use 'haze's strangers' under tags to the right of the 365 entry of his portrait.
It was a cold morning so I am grateful that Seán was willing to spend time to give me some information to accompany his portrait.
The orange car was a Citroen C3, in his possession for the week as he was reviewing it for his website which he is developing. A car is delivered straight to him from the manufacturer to review. He lives and works locally but has recently been to Spain and to Ireland to review cars.
I quote from Seán's website
http://newmotoring.com/ "I love cars, love writing, love photography." He explained the concept of his website to me as an online motoring magazine, his aim being to attract advertising.
Outside business time, Seán likes playing hockey and is also a keen swimmer.
Seán has a degree in media and film from Winchester University and is especially interested in journalism. He started his enterprise in 2011. I admire his entrepreneurial skills and wish him all the best for the future.
Dianne, thanks so much for your comment. I guess when I reach 100, I shall not stop!
Oh dear! Well I have had about 10% refusals and 96 successes -so don't give up!
That's always nice Kazzy. What I am not too keen on is a situation like this where the 'subjects' insist on being photographed together, not because it then makes only one portrait, but because it's so much harder to get a good shot of two people.