Good mates

Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 8 October 2007 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

A few streets away from where I live, there's what appears to be a rather run down looking boarding house. This day, as I was walking past it, these two men saw me with the camera and asked me to take their photo...

March 2007

Canon 50mm f1.8

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Comments (6)

DIMITRIOS from ATHENS, Greece

AND YOU DID IT VERY WELL,, send them the picture 2 copies please

8 Oct 2007 9:07am

@DIMITRIOS: I really should do that. I didn't get round to processing this for a while and it slipped my mind.

ChaCha from United States

awwwww such a cute shot! LoL I like the epression on their faces

8 Oct 2007 11:50am

Manuela Photography from Hainburg, Germany

Well cuaght indeed, did you give them copies?

8 Oct 2007 11:56am

@Manuela Photography: What happened was that the way they asked me to take the photo sounded almost like they were making a bit of fun of me for walking around with a camera, so I didn't take it too seriously. Then I didn't get round to processing the photo for a while. You have made me think about it, and I'm going to print out some copies for them and go round there.

Chris Sullivan from Melbourne, Australia

Great shot, you can't make this sort of scene up

9 Oct 2007 1:13am

@Chris Sullivan: Interesting comment, Chris, because I guess that's it's best virtue. I almost didn't upload it, as I'm not totally happy with the sharpness of the faces, but then I thought about the authenticity of this contentwise, and decided to do so.

Organik Mum from Victoria, Australia

Singlets and stubbies. Did you notice if they were wearing thongs or Blundstones Andrew? :)

I agree with Chris. A fantastic portrait.

10 Oct 2007 7:07am

@Organik Mum: Thanks for your approval here. I can't remember anything about their footwear and I don't have any full length shots of them, either, but it's an interesting question, as workboots or thongs (the latter being called "flipflops" in some other countries) would seem to be really the only appropriate options.

tvm from fröndenberg, Germany

Jeep; Andrew, great shot.

12 Oct 2007 6:56am

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