It was an early dinner
It wasn’t that I was stalking this couple or anything like that. It’s just that I happened to notice their leaving a restaurant and walking back toward the hotel. And I happened to step off the sidewalk long enough to let them pass. And I happened to take a picture.
And I happened to notice they were through with dinner at 5:30 pm.
Also, I happened to notice her harem pants and his natty hat.
Saint Petersburg, Florida
photographed 10.28.2013
Posted on November 5, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, saint petersburg, saint petersburg florida. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
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This is really sweet! Mäybe I’m reading too much into it, but I’m seeing it as they’re still in love. 🙂
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They held hands and kept in perfect step with each other. I think you are seeing it the right way!
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That’s a Cartier-Bresson style shot, Melinda. You’ve picked the ‘decisive moment’. They looked so together, in step,and her face is just turned enough to see her profile. Well shot.
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Thanks, Andy. I was a little nervous about taking this shot – for one thing, as you know, street photography is not my usual deal. Also, I’d been trying to get a shot of them for a couple of blocks and was starting to feel like I was intruding on their after-dinner stroll.
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A couple of blocks!?! Now the truth is out. Good thing you had the excuse of photography. It is a good shot In so many ways so all your work was worth it. But without the harem pants it would be much diminished.
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I even stepped off the sidewalk at one point and pretended to be taking a picture of something else to give them time to catch up with me: I wasn’t willing to give up on the harem pants.
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Harem pants on her. I suspect you don’t wear them.
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Wear them, or OWN them?
(Again, in the spirit of honesty, I no longer have harem pants, I did have a pair, once, that I wore in a community theatre audition of “I Dream of Jeannie: the musical” but when I didn’t get the part there was no reason to keep the harem pants.)
Not really. I’ve never owned harem pants. And don’t really want to, either.
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Should I take it that your bracketed comments are often lies, ahem, I mean exaggerations?
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Lies! It’s all lies!!
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Uh…I mean, it’s National Novel Writing Month. It’s not a lie if you put it in a novel, right?
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Right.
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