Thursday, January 15, 2009

Ann 5/100 - Carol and Roy

Meet Carol and Roy from the Central Coast who were having a bite to eat before Roy's appointment at Sydney Eye Hospital to have a needle in his eye (shudder) to treat macular degeneration. Best of luck, Roy.

9 comments:

Julie said...

What a nice looking couple, Ann. Good courage plucked up here: I usually try to approach just people by themselves so that we are equals, if you get what I mean.

Carol looks like she is thinking about her appearance. You are getting closer to them which I think you voiced as an aim yesterday. Goodo ...

bitingmidge said...

It's interesting knowing a little of their stories I think. It makes it easy to read something into the picture which may not be there. Roy looks a little uneasy which of course could simply be his reaction to having his photo taken by a stranger, but it's also easy to read it as apprehension about his appointment.

Carol is pretty certain it's all going to go well!

Maybe we should write horoscopes and Ann could illustrate them!

I've got to go out and find some more today.

Julie said...

It has just dawned on me that there are dangers in having too many already scheduled: The drive to go out each day is reduced! I walked past three really good shots this morning that I feel I would have approached had I absolutely needed a post for tomorrow. Must factor that into my head-speak. I am scheduling mine in the order in which I take them to show progress and what I should/should not work on next. I am going to start a folder on my hard-drive and queue them up there with the info so that I dont forget.

Ann said...

I'm already doing that. I don't know how long I'll be putting up one a day. This one was actually very easy to take, they just looked so approachable and friendly - and they were.

Ann said...

Does photographing 2 people in the same shot count as 2 strangers?

Julie said...

I am starting to read people like that, too. How do I think they will react? How to approach them to get them to agree? What hook can I use? Sometimes this is not necessary at all - the people are just down to earth normal folk who don't take offence and don't think we are about to either rip them off or compromise them.

Actually, the whole exercise is strengtening my appreciation of people. I want to branch out multi-culturally speaking too ... just need to make sure they understand English enough, though.

I must be getting confident because I am starting to thing of all these aims ... hee hee hee ...

Julie said...

Good try, Narelle ... but no battered sav!

bitingmidge said...

I'm yet to achieve more than three in a day anyway, but want to keep one a day going until that magic thirty or so mark happens, or I feel completely at ease, whichever is earlier. I'm presently home based, so I actually have to go out to find a subject, which I find the most confronting yet the best experience of the exercise. I am actually forced to approach someone

In a few weeks we'll be off camping somewhere and the old "haveachat" will be working overtime, I expect an avalanche of quality encounters if not quality photos!

I now see that there are two different photographs to be had. The first is the confronting one, the "journalist" taking advantage of a scene or personality, the other more a record of a personal encounter, and I suspect we are all fairly adept at that.

I'm not sure that the two can mix although one may grow out of the other. Perhaps someone will show us their etchings!

bitingmidge said...

Does photographing 2 people in the same shot count as 2 strangers?

If the answer had been yes, I would have been off to find a few cricket teams!

100 strangers in nine shots!