Winged Insect Alighting On Horizontal Surface: Greek Guy

Monday, July 16, 2007

Greek Guy

(I keep skipping days between posts. Oopsie. :-/)

I took this picture on our last night in Athens--I couldn't pass up that guy in that shirt. And the thing is, I could totally imagine this Greek guy living in NYC and standing in front of a t-shirt shop there. This picture is totally interchangeable!

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Anonymous said...: He looks like a Turk/Arab, I'm Greek and I'm not dark like that at all. You shoulda told him to fcuk off back to Turkey... or atleast I would have.; February 23, 2011 at 5:10 PM

How Not To Be Seen

I tend to hang back from my subjects, trying to keep out of the way so I don't change their behavior. That and I don't really have the confidence to announce I'm taking a capital-P PICTURE, or the willingness to forgo the picture if I ask permission and they say no. :P I have boundary issues.

So I decided to turn what I thought was a weakness into a theme: pictures in which no one (or nothing) is aware a moment is being recorded. (And I've decided animals don't count.) Sneaky, underhanded photography, but hopefully, honest.

I live in L.A. I don't have a 'spensive camera (a mere Canon SD600 Sure Shot) or any particular training. Even discounting their quality, my shots are CERTAINLY not the most eye-catching or groundbreaking of all the thousands of other photo blogs you could choose from. But I challenged myself to take a picture a day for a year. And what's the use of taking if you don't show?

However, I often have a terrible time choosing just one. Sometimes I'll probably use one picture to represent a set, which you'll be able to see if you click the "read more" button.

We'll see how it goes.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Greek Guy

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How Not To Be Seen

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