My favourite way of taking pictures is when you spot something and you have to be super-quick to capture it. The will-I-get-the-camera-out-in-time, will-it-be-in-focus and will-they-see-me-moment where luck is crucial. These are three of my favourites where speed was of the essence. They're pretty old too, I shot these back in the day when my Lomo was my camera of choice in the mid-Nineties. I must get some new batteries for it, I'm so up for the challenge of that crazy little camera again.
love the last photo. im so so bad at photographing strangers! i will always chicken out and be too slow and just say: oh that would be a good picture! bad, bad photographer!
ReplyDeleteI would take the best pictures od strangers when I don't have my camera with me. I don't know why this happens, but when I do have it nothing seems to happen, no cool dressed people on the street...
ReplyDeletehaha, jag är lite som ovanstående talare Mette... lite för feg oftast. Men vad bra dessa var, speciellt sista o första - GUBBARNA!
ReplyDeleteHa, I love that first one. I guess it's only in the London underground escalators you can actually take a nap because they are so loooong! :)
ReplyDeleteNice shot.
oh yes, get your lomo out again. i did a double take at that last shot - at first glance i thought he was picasso. he he.
ReplyDeleteI love taking photographs of situations like this. Martin Parr is my favorite photographer, by the way.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's hard not to feel guilty when you capture something intimate, though.
Which LOMO wre you using at that time ? The LCA ?
ReplyDeleteclicky overload: I agree that it feels almost as if you're stealing something but I don't feel as bad if the subject didn't notice (they didn't in these pictures - phew!)...
ReplyDeletemarion: yes, the LCA. such a great little stealth camera. just ridiculously unreliable though :0)
rulltrappan! gubben!
ReplyDeleterulltrappor måste ju va exemplariska egentligen för såna bilder, om man åker åt olika håll o så gåre gaaanska sakta..perfekt!
@famapa: Yep, you just have to be extra sneaky.
ReplyDeleteTalk about stealing: I just had to blog about you collecting "The End" frames. It's the perfect thing to collect. So awesome.
http://the-cuddly-cactus.blogspot.com/2009/08/end.html
ReplyDeleteHope it's fine with you.
oh no, too stressy for me! but would like to be good in it! must be fun! they look good!
ReplyDeleteI love the first one!!! What a great shot!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures! The first one is hilarious! :)
ReplyDeleteLove these, the last one in particular, it really seems to capture a character, you could easily make up a life for that gentleman!
ReplyDeletethat last shot is just brilliant!
ReplyDeleteso so good!!!
funny that i, too, just dusted off my fisheye lomo and started shooting a roll. let's see what i'll get.
love these, and i love that "hurry up and shoot!" moment, too. i have twice as many misses as hits, though....
ReplyDeleteHahaha, great photos! I like them all!
ReplyDeleteAdorable men!
Vilka bilder! Den första var ju underbar!
ReplyDeleteWow, that old man sleeping on the escalators of the tube! It's priceless!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors of all three. But that first pic is really great. You must be super quick to have got your camera out in time for it :)
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