On 5/28/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in downtown Birmingham, Michigan last night, hanging out at the > gallery. (The owner asked that I come by now and then on busy nights. > I've been neglecting that duty.) Anyway, on warm Friday nights the > streets of Birmingham are full of teenagers, the majority of whom are > very pleasant and quite colorful. I caught this attractive trio hanging > out around a mailbox near the theater. They happily posed for me when I > raised my camera. It was the *istD with the FA 35/2. Open shade at dusk > f8, 1/30, ISO 200. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3402700&size=lg > Paul
You know, Paul, there's a certain warmth to this photo that I really like. It's so easy to think nasty things of teenagers, just because we see one or two of them getting into trouble, or doing something we don't approve of. It's all to easy to think that every teenager falls into the category of miscreant or troublemaker. Yet most are fine upstanding kids. These kids are just out having a good time, and it shows. Not getting into any trouble, just out enjoying what appears to be a lovely warm spring evening. This is a great grab; a very uplifting and "human" photo for me. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
