I didn’t expect finding a couple to photograph for my Shooting Strangers project to be so hard. There just weren’t any couples around. And those that were seemed to be in a hurry to get somewhere. It’s confronting enough interupting one person’s routine to take a random portrait of them, add another person to the mix and you double the scaredy-cat factor.
But I was patient, with a fair bit of stubborness thrown in, and it paid off.
He’s from Adelaide, she’s from Columbia. They met somewhere in the middle, and not long after they wandered across my path.
In three short minutes they made my day.
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I found it that much harder this time around that I’m going to force myself to do it again. Ten more times. Next months’s challenge will be to shoot ten couples, and I’m excited and scared at the same time. Pretty much what I was feeling like this time last month. But I made it through, and enjoyed every minute of it. And didn’t get a single no. Let’s see what this month brings.
And just to save you looking back, and as a visual reward for myself, here are the nine other wonderful people that shared with me a few minutes of their lives. I’m super grateful to each of them. Like really really grateful.
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Narrelle x