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do the astral plane - flylo

june 2010 archive | Detroit, MI

Most of us have someone that we can look back and credit with helping us out along the way somehow. This is the guy who, 3 years ago this month, encouraged me to buy a camera and took me out shooting when I had no clue what the letters "DSLR" even stood for. As this photo suggests, he's a pretty low key, throwback kinda dude who wouldn't make a big deal out of what he did, but I've got mad respect for the voo. Thanks for everything, man.

massive attack

Nyman

street photography

SPNC.Y02.09
"Get yourself in the midst of an encounter: shoot a picture with people, rather than of people." - Tiffany Jones
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I get a completely different reaction from strangers when I'm dressed casually versus being dressed formally in a suit for work. Today, since I was out sick, I happened to be dressed rather casually (corduroys and a sweater, mind you, not Sean John's and Timberlands), and I wandered into a bookstore (location withheld because I'm a classy cat) while out grabbing lunch. The expression you see on this guys' face? That's the look he gave me the whole time I was there, from the minute he looked up from his own book to greet me.

I wound up choosing the two books on the counter, Gordon Parks' Half Past Autumn and a Japanese dictionary. I used my debit card to pay. Now, a customer before me had just used her debit card, and his machine worked fine. But when it was my turn, he had to "make a call first."

That's when I shot him. With my camera. :)