I'm so excited about this one! First of all, I didn't have to shoot something at home!! A neighbor chauffeured me to PT that morning, and we went out to lunch after. We decided to lunch at the Chickahomany House, which is actually a house. One part is a small gift shop, the other side is the restaurant. We were about 5 minutes early, so we poked around in the shop. This gentleman was sitting on a bench waiting for something and was very intently reading a list, refolding and looking at it again. He was so wonderful, I tried to stay out of the way and use my cell phone for pictures. I really didn't want to be obvious or make him uncomfortable, so I'm sidling out of the way and trying to be surreptitious. I was probably as obvious as a Mack Truck! :)
And then came the editing. It was fun to think of it as a painting. I started working with the tones and contrasts, and it felt very painterly to be playing with it in such a way. It really was fun to look at it from a different point of view.
Thanks for the comments!
And thanks to the unknown gentleman for being such a fascinating person. I would have loved to have just stayed there and watched and tried different angles.
Diary update: no driving still. Making progress still. Getting really stir crazy and wanting to be able to actually drive somewhere!
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Well done! Your all around greatness with anything that takes pictures and precessing skills are shining this month.
This one seems very much like a Norman Rockwell painting to me, though it also fits the challenge to a tee.
If the people who run the shop say he is someone who comes there once in a while You might think about leaving a print of this at the little shop for the man and his family to have.
I hope you're zooming around in your car again soon.
I think this is what Manet would have liked. Maybe not provocative and controversial, but it tells a story through expression, position and framing. Nicely done.
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