Summerfest at the Shriner's Temple

[alfredo]

Dunking Booth Girl


Tattoo


Happiness


Beauty and the Engineer.


More to come, maybe

[alfredo]

1. Instigation, Action, Reaction

[Callalily]

2. What a fabulous shot!

[alfredo]

3. Thanks. Shutter lag prevented me from catching the girl

as she fell, but I did catch the reaction of her friend.

[Mira]

4. How did I miss these earlier? I'm very glad I found them now.

Portraiture par excellence, you caught them all in great comfortable poses, except for the one you call "Happiness", he's not posing. It's a treasure. Those lone beads at his neck...what a study of a moment in an exhausted clown's life.
They are extra special, all of them. And I love that they are so vibrant in b/w.
When I grow up I want your eye AND your camera.

LOL

[alfredo]

5. Don't take the left one, it has Macular Degeneration.

My mission was to take portraits that day. Asking first seemed to make them relax a bit. Engaging them in conversation seemed to help.