Kelly has been a professional photographer and he is quite comfortable taking pictures in many situations where I would be way too embarrassed. But the other day, he snapped a picture of some women in a marketplace and noticed that one of them cringed a bit.
That got his creativity going. Since our digital camera allows you to hold it away from your body and view the image through a small screen on the back of the camera, he tried sitting on a bench and doing that.
Fifteen of the pictures ended up in this Guanajuato street animation. Choose the slide show, and you can set how quickly you watch it. There’s a lot to notice! I didn’t see the woman mopping the sidewalk until about the third time I watched it.
This animation is up at a very interesting website called flickr.com, where a lot of photographers have put up photos and photoessays of many kinds. I was particularly delighted by many closeup portraits taken by a man who has traveled widely.
They got me thinking that I could take more pictures of people if I just asked them. So off I went with the camera, and the two photos in this blog entry are my first results.
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