Friday, August 6, 2010

Peter 080 - Kurt


We travelled more or less in company with Kurt for a few days, nodding and "bonjouring" at first, each unsure of each other's native tongue.   Then he spotted our flag and knew that he could speak English better than we, and the communication didn't stop.  We now have the benefit of his decades of trawling the waterways close to his home on the Saar.

Kurt is German, who with his wife Ursula travel the rivers at every opportunity on their somewhat rustic vintage police boat, and like so many water travellers, the term "affable" comes to mind by way of description.

The downside, if there is one, with our lifestyle is that every few days we are saying farewell to people with whom we know we will be in contact for a very long time.   Like Kurt.

5 comments:

Julie said...

I had a chap in my sights the other day, but the smoke simply did not swirl as well as yours here.

What I like about this is that it TELLS the watcher sooo much ... about his lifestyle, about him, about the light ...

And the text is a joy, Pierre ...

Ann said...

What Julie said. Glad you are showing us some people this time.

cara said...

That's a great expression. He was obviously pretty relaxed at the time. Did you intentionally compose the whole frame with tricolor colours? I reckon you did. Top job.

Kay Richardson said...

Kurt's got a great beard. Gotta love the beard.

cara said...

I'm off on my holidays on Wednesday for a month - 2 weeks in southern India and 2 weeks in a village in Aceh in Indonesia. Can't wait! Ann, I went out and bought a little Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens. It was only $186. I've had it for about half an hour and I already love it! If everything goes my way I'll have plenty of strangers to shoot while I'm away.