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Here are three of mine (4 if you count the diptych as two photos). I just like how (for once) I managed to capture a moment in each of them, without too many of the compromises that are inherent in street photography. Of course, the backstreets were easy as they stood still for me. ;) But there was still the question of composition and lighting to struggle with.52797471774_058366ec3e_h (4).jpg53088075457_a38e701e0a_h (3).jpg53064843443_1097bea492_h (2).jpg
 
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I like this photo because it is an informal portrait of my wife, taken not long after we first met - about 20 years past. And mostly I like it because I have not post processed it much at all, if any. It's just a simple shot that worked. Helped immeasurably by the fact that she was very photogenic and also had an inherent knack for posing. Shot with a Nikon F801s and a Nikkor 28-85mm AF 3.5-4.5 and recently scanned.


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I like this photo because it is an informal portrait of my wife, taken not long after we first met - about 20 years past. And mostly I like it because I have not post processed it much at all, if any. It's just a simple shot that worked. Helped immeasurably by the fact that she was very photogenic and also had an inherent knack for posing. Shot with a Nikon F801s and a Nikkor 28-85mm AF 3.5-4.5 and recently scanned.


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She is so beautiful! I remember other portraits of her by you, all very beautiful. This one too is like a pencil drawing by Ingres.
 
This is not, perhaps my normal type of shot - one taken at a "Fringe" Arts Festival with a kind of modern "take" on a traditional circus - replete with acrobats, high wire and aerial performers. And it's not necessarily the camera lens combo I would normally choose as it was taken with a Leica Q and its 28mm lens (then cropped in post). But it's what I had with me at the time and place and the scene was certainly engaging. I can at least take some satisfaction in the timing of the shot. In short, I like it perhaps because it's not one of my usual ones.


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I like it a lot. Its play of shadow and light is very nice.
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Thank you, I do like it for the same reasons and learned a lot from it, for me once I knew how to use a camera, light was the next important thing I learnt about when I knew I wanted to take my photography more seriously.
 
A few years ago, I came across this photo, which is over 40 years old. It is a picture of me and my young daughter. My wife, Kathy, was holding my Nikon
F2 and she is the one who shot the photo. I dropped off the roll of film at a drugstore for prints and she picked them up and took this photo out and saved it. She taped the print into a scrapbook and forgot about it. I found the print in 2009. It was the first time I had seen it. I snapped a shot of the album page when I found it.





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Rick Waldroup said:
A few years ago, I came across this photo, which is over 40 years old. It is a picture of me and my young daughter. My wife, Kathy, was holding my Nikon
F2 and she is the one who shot the photo. I dropped off the roll of film at a drugstore for prints and she picked them up and took this photo out and saved it. She taped the print into a scrapbook and forgot about it. I found the print in 2009. It was the first time I had seen it. I snapped a shot of the album page when I found it.
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I love the stories attached with pictures, thanks for sharing yours.

It reminds of when I buy a book and it has an inscription, it's part of its history.
 
Rick Waldroup said:
A few years ago, I came across this photo, which is over 40 years old. It is a picture of me and my young daughter. My wife, Kathy, was holding my Nikon
F2 and she is the one who shot the photo. I dropped off the roll of film at a drugstore for prints and she picked them up and took this photo out and saved it. She taped the print into a scrapbook and forgot about it. I found the print in 2009. It was the first time I had seen it. I snapped a shot of the album page when I found it.





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That's lovely. That makes me remember... Hmm...
 
The mention of photographing a picture in an album made me remember this one. Back in 1979 my high school was putting on a Musical and I was in the orchestra. There was a part for a harp but we didn't have a harp player and the local university said that it was too simple for their students BUT there was a player at the local junior high. When she showed up at rehearsal I was all "I need to meet that beautiful girl" and my usual shyness disappeared. The next spring I won tickets to a nearby amusement park and my mother drove us there. I was sixteen, she was fourteen.

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This would have been taken by my mother with her Instamatic as she hadn't yet bought her AE-1.

We would date most of the time for the next 7 years before slowly going our separate ways completely though there many memories along the way. A weekend's leave while I was stationed in Germany with the US Army and she was over on a school trip for example or visits to her college.

Many years later, after marriage, each of us having one child and divorcing we would reconnect. We've been dating again for about 4 years :)

Live is strange and wonderful and never to be underestimated :D
 
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