Okay, I figured this would be a fitting picture to start out with after a lengthy justification of my right to blog...
I actually would have taken more pictures in Lesotho but I ran out of film. My friend Jud and I made more than a couple trips to the post office to see if my expected film shipment had arrived from the States. It never did and by the last couple weeks I was shooting high speed 3200 film in some serious African sunlight. These shots are grainy, but still effective. I don't typically title my pictures, but I usually refer to this one as 'Serious Joy'. In two shots it sums up how we'd like to be viewed in a photograph...and how we really are sometimes.
Ron Juliette wrote about 'the photographers perspective' in the forward for my last exhibition. I've posted it on the website. Much of what he writes about makes me think about these two images.
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This is one of my favorite shots from that African trip. It's funny how different we look when we let go of trying to impress people and just laugh.
one of my customers at the shop named this one "oops. i farted."
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