Strangers

[Lez]

Went to the Auckland regional hairdressing comp on sunday,got this photo of this dude.His name is Colin and he was there as one of the judges,ended up having a good laugh with him and his mate liam.





There are some more shots of the comp on my flickr acc if you want a nosey.

note"if my EXIF info does not come would someone give me a yell,ta"

[Susan]

Stranger in my own skin
I admit, it's not immediately obvious how this fits the 'stranger' assignment but the word stranger totally sums up how I feel in my skin today. I woke up this morning (with plans to take photos of myself with a stranger out in the street) but then I discovered that the god of skin conditions had decided that it was my lucky day to develop a whole load of new psoriasis over yet another new place on my body. There is nothing more likely to wipe the smile off my face than to find that the skin I have woken up in is so utterly different from the skin in which I went to sleep - my body has literally morphed into that of a stranger over night. First I itch myself raw, then I cover myself in cream and then I spend the day dreaming of being able to rip my skin off. But today, I decided to try and record my frustration with my camera hoping that sharing it will somehow help. Luckily the only permanent and public signs of psoriasis are my elbows and knees, everything else lies under cover and the psoriasis on my face thankfully only flares up when I'm really stressed. When I first developed it back in 2002 I used to get embarrassed when strangers would come up to me and ask if I'd fallen off my bike. I usually say no and try and explain what it is - but I am beginning to think that saying 'yes, it was a terrible fall' will save them the embarrassment and save me another explanation. But given you now know that I've not fallen off my bike, I guess I should explain what psoriasis is for those who don't know. Psoriasis is a skin condition that is not catching and is basically an over-production of skin cells which often leads to scaly and red patches of skin, usually in parts of the body where the skin is close to the bone. Here you can see me modeling my elbow and belly button psoriasis, and if you're really keen you can see a little bit by the side of my nose. So, has my attempt at therapy via photography helped me? Well, at least I've not been able to itch while I wrote this!!!

[carolbrowne]

I got a nice profile shot of this man yesterday when I stopped to rubber-neck a protest that stopped traffic. I'm not sure what they were protesting, exactly, and didn't really stick around long enough to find out, but the drivers stuck in the traffic were not happy. It caused some chaos.

[Hendo1769]

Originally Posted by sybren

Yesterday I shot this man, again on Amsterdam Central Station:



It still feels a little weird asking someone for permission to publicize a photo. He didn't mind at all, and was even pleasantly surprised that I already took a good shot of him.

Sybren, Your black and whites are great. What do you use to convert them? Mine always look so lifeless.

Thanks,
Andy

[Sime]

assignment:strangers

I like it when people make me smile, and this woman despite the fact that I have no idea who she is always smiles (at everyone) when she comes into my local cafe... I sat waiting for her to come in and was going to ask her if I could take her photo, it didn't happen so here is a candid from across the road and up the street... (thankyou 400mm)
Smile - the world will smile with you...

[sybren]

Originally Posted by Hendo1769

Sybren, Your black and whites are great. What do you use to convert them? Mine always look so lifeless.

Thank you Andy! I use Bibble Pro for B&W conversion, and more specifically its "Andy" plug-in. Really, I'm not joking

Often I also use "Tony" for image toning and a suitable amount of vignette to centre the viewer's eye onto the subject.

[j_r_reynolds]

Assignment: Strangers

I work at the airport so had plenty of chances to take pictures of strangers, but none of the pictures seemed all that exciting, so I thought I'd try something different.

I was out hiking one day and came by this old cemetary. Turned out to be a historic site. Used between 1938 and 1946 it has 35 grave sites, many have faded over time. Life was hard in the Canadian North back in those days and many people died in the mines or due to the extreme cold temperatures. The first person buried in this cemetary was Art McIntyer on Sept 24th, 1938. He died on his way to work in one of the mines and was found after an eight day search. The funeral party arrived by boat from across the bay as the cemetary is not easily accessible by land (which I found out the hard way) Most of the people in this cemetary were born a hundred years ago and we can only imagine what their lives were like.

[windrider86]

This guy was in a parade to honor combat veterans in Cripple Creek Colorado this past weekend. Couldnt reallya sk him his name as he was busy leading the parade so I guess this prety much makes him a stranger.

Olympus E-500, 68mm, F6.3, 1/400. iso 100

[Pernod]

I was just walking into town after work on Friday, and I took the shortcut under the road that I know I shouldn't.

I was met with this. I stopped and snapped.

When I finally met him in the middle of the tunnel, I couldn't get much out of him... he just seemed relieved I was only taking a picture! I can understand why he was nervous given the infamous nature of the tunnel.

Stranger Danger.


Whoops - forgot to add Assignment: Strangers

[RexK_Cozumel]

As you might have noticed from watching the news Hurricane Dean hit the Yucatan peninsula early this morning about 250 kilometers south of Cozumel. Dean was a category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour gusting at over 200 MPH at times. The hurricane was about the size of Texas. We had winds of about 80-100 mph here in cozumel. Fortunately the winds were coming from the east so the main down town location located on the west side of the island was spared from any major damage. the same could not be said for the east side of the island. I some how talked my way into getting onto the east side of the island. (Had to go through 3 police barricades but good thing I had my "get out of jail free" pass. Signed permission from the Commandante allowing me to take pictures on the other side. He some how thought I was with CNN I dunno how that happened...) Anyways I caught this little guy hard at working cleaning up a beach bar. If you notice the adults in the background they are not so much hard at work. I didnt edit the photo any because I wanted the rough look to convey a little bit of the mood post hurricane.