What to do when you want to take a photograph of your daughter when she's not too keen on having her photograph taken - that was my dilemma the other day on Portstewart Prom. So I convinced her to stand innocuously in front of me and said 'Make it look like I'm taking your photograph, but actually I want to photograph the people sitting in the cafe behind you'. She thought that was very clever and I did feel a little guilty about the fact that (unknowingly) she was actually the main subject. But not that guilty. Missy is changing so much these days - gone is the school kid of recent years and now she looks every bit the Uni Student, so I want to keep photographing her as much as I can.
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| The Student, 2022. Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt and Mango Smoothie in hand. She saw the group recently in Dublin and was well impressed. So was I, even though I wasn't there. Most of them are around my age, or slightly older. FP4+ on the 'Blad/50mm. Foma 133 paper. |
Sneaky sneaky! But you captured her as she is, not as she would present for a photo. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jim!
DeleteClever indeed! But she's probably known all your tricks for a long time. :) She does look very different from photos you've posted in the past.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right - I'm just fooling myself. Maybe it's a triple bluff :)
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