I think you’re right about the woman being annoyed. I guess that’s of the paradoxes of being a woman. They spend a fair amount of time to look attractive and then resent being looked at…. by the wrong people.

I look forward to your post about your Brissy experience.

Ross

I don’t remember her smiling. I’ve noticed in Latin countries that the women don’t tend to smile at strange men, possibly because it might it would be interpreted as a come on.

Donald

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how taking photographs changes the way how people react. For instance, a good friend of mine always pulls stupid faces when a camera is pointed at him and then of course he wonders why all photos of him make him look like a fool. People are amazing creatures!

Grasswire.

Thanks for the link. Some great images and it makes me think of what I’d come up with if I focused on one type of image or subject for that long. Trouble with me, is that just about everything interests me which means that my photography is far more general. I feel I can slip in and out of genres quite easily.

Pat

I thought you weren’t “into” Freud? That is to say, “the cigar might be just a cigar”.

Razz, you might like this photoproject: http://www.travisruse.com/

I could enjoy a beer or 3 looking at that!
… but I’d take my empties with me afterwards.

I’m fascinated with how we are always checking each other out.

All I really wanted was a picture of inside the train with people in it. I take pictures inside of every metro system I go into. I’ve got pictures on the trains in Mexico, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Germany and Singapore. I’m interested in crowds and transportation and how we experience them.

Usually, all I’m interested in recording, is the interiors with passengers (because the fashion of their clothes help place the image in time) not the people themselves, but of course people think I’m taking pictures of only them. It’s been interesting to see the reactions I capture.

Photography is like physics because the very act of observing, affects to reaction being observed. Perhaps the post modernists were right in that there is no such thing as an objective photograph. Not just because we subjectively select what to frame, but because we are part of the image, even though we aren’t in it usually (unless of course there are reflections or shadows caused by us).

Robert

That’s funny, I thought she was thinking, “oh piss off!” Whereas the guy was probably thinking, “I’ll have some of that”.

If your area becomes so unaffordable to live in, then perhaps less people will move there and you can keep your Shangri La for yourself and all the other less evolved people can live…….. who am I kidding?

Who cares, as long as they don’t impact on you….. right?

As we should all know by now, the dam was canned, as expected. By me at any rate. The State Government went into deficit in its last budget for the first time in I don’t know when, and the Feds saved their arses, they no longer have to build the dam. It was all a face saving exercise.

Re growth, this neck of the woods is growing so fast that everybody’s up in arms about it. Every poll I’ve seen on this shows more than 80% of the people who live here do not want more people! It also makes this area the third least affordable region to live in IN THE WORLD, behind Vancouver and Sydney…

Who needs it.