Confronting a "paparazzo"
Best viewed large. Before I upload a photo to Flickr, I nearly always reduce it to about 640x480 pixels, so as to conserve bandwidth, and I keep the original, "large," version on a CD or in the hard drive of my computer. I discovered after uploading this one that I had forgotten to reduce it, but in this case, that may be a fortunate mistake.
I worked as a Spanish-language court interpreter for several years before moving to my current position, which involves conducting settlement conferences in divorce and paternity cases. This woman was among my successors in that line of work, and I have always been favorably impressed by her. Aside from her professional competence and demeanor, she is very striking, and has a good sense of style. She also projects sort of a celebrity air, which was what made me think of paparazzi when I took the picture. (In this connection, my daughter, when she saw this photo, remarked that she looks a bit like Kirsten Dunst.)
I used her today as a subject for a candid photo. Although I am nervous about taking pictures of people I don't know, for fear that they'll think I'm a spy or something worse, I don't have the same hesitation about photographing people I know and like, and with whom I feel comfortable. Thus, I took advantage of this photo opportunity as my friend and her fiance were walking past the outdoor cafeteria tables where I work. Someone called her name just as I was aiming the camera, and this was the result. She was about 30 feet away at the time (that's about 9m).
I was sitting at a table with three of her co-workers, and a few moments later she came over to say hello. I told her she had become a target of the paparazzi, and showed her the two pictures I had taken of her. She was good about it, of course, as I knew she would be.
Confronting a "paparazzo"
Best viewed large. Before I upload a photo to Flickr, I nearly always reduce it to about 640x480 pixels, so as to conserve bandwidth, and I keep the original, "large," version on a CD or in the hard drive of my computer. I discovered after uploading this one that I had forgotten to reduce it, but in this case, that may be a fortunate mistake.
I worked as a Spanish-language court interpreter for several years before moving to my current position, which involves conducting settlement conferences in divorce and paternity cases. This woman was among my successors in that line of work, and I have always been favorably impressed by her. Aside from her professional competence and demeanor, she is very striking, and has a good sense of style. She also projects sort of a celebrity air, which was what made me think of paparazzi when I took the picture. (In this connection, my daughter, when she saw this photo, remarked that she looks a bit like Kirsten Dunst.)
I used her today as a subject for a candid photo. Although I am nervous about taking pictures of people I don't know, for fear that they'll think I'm a spy or something worse, I don't have the same hesitation about photographing people I know and like, and with whom I feel comfortable. Thus, I took advantage of this photo opportunity as my friend and her fiance were walking past the outdoor cafeteria tables where I work. Someone called her name just as I was aiming the camera, and this was the result. She was about 30 feet away at the time (that's about 9m).
I was sitting at a table with three of her co-workers, and a few moments later she came over to say hello. I told her she had become a target of the paparazzi, and showed her the two pictures I had taken of her. She was good about it, of course, as I knew she would be.