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This was their first game of Dominion.

This picture is of Stranger #06 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.

Rachel actually approached me as I was checking out the light of the setting sun against the building the background. She asked what I found interesting about the building, and I said that I wanted to use it as a backdrop for a stranger portrait, and then talked more about the project. At that point I asked her if she wanted to be the stranger in the portrait, and she agreed to pose.

Rachel is the first person to have looked carefully at the model release. We had a long discussion about the purpose of the release, what rights she has, what verbal commitments I was making to her regarding the photos, etc. Part of me was happy that she was actually taking an interest in her rights and taking the time to think critically about the release, but another part of me was frustrated that I didn't have a more well-thought-out set of responses to her questions. I'll have to do more reading and thinking so that I'm better prepared next time.

The most interesting thing about this stranger shot for me is actually that Rachel knows my mother. My mother and Rachel had a very good friend in common, but neither of us realized that we had any connection beyond geography until I handed over my business card near the end of our conversation. Small world!