If you’ve visited before, you may be familiar with the Photo-A-Day Challenge that my fiancée (now wife!) gave me back in February. This blog has seen radio silence for the past few months, due to wedding planning, but now I’ve been given a new challenge to jump-start things again! And this one’s assignment list has a rather different character. For the first assignment of the month, I had to take portraits of a few random strangers.
We were visiting our friends Ali and Aaron Eisenhauer, who live in upstate New York. As such, I did this one at a farmer’s market near Lake George.
Erica
Keith
David and his glorious cheeses
Meena didn’t know it when she assigned it, but this was actually the very first photo assignment I ever had, back in college in David Rees’s Fundamentals of Photojournalism class. It was a lot more socially awkward the first time around than this time — positively easy. But these folks were also the friendliest strangers I’ve ever asked to photograph. I’ll have to do this same thing again in the city to see if I have a similar experience…
[...] Ideally, I would’ve had many more photos, but alas — today was a travel day, back from upstate. Averaging all the colors of this collage yields the hex code #5e6271 — a sort of greyish [...]
Hurray! The blog is back! And I am intrigued by these glorious cheeses.
They all certainly look friendly, they remind me of people you might see in the U.P.!
And I’m glad to be reading your comments once again! Indeed, the people of upstate New York and the people of the Upper Peninsula could certainly agree on issues of climate… among others, I’m sure!
[...] I was assigned to do the same assignment I had at the beginning of this project. This time was very, very [...]