another post that should have been sent yesterday...
I had only taken a 35mm lens by the way, that is
equivalent to 50mm in film-camera. That is with the
35mm the standard focal lenses with which most of
the most famous BW pictures of the XXth century have
been shot. Thinking of Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Doisneau,
Mydans, Eisenthal...That was before the monster
zooms that are available now and make your life
easy, too easy..so once in a while I like to go
back to the basic lens and face the challenge,come
close to people, a few meters away. When I started
photography, I chose by then the easy way
with a big 300 mm lens, then slowly I switched to
a normal 35-70mm zoom, which forces you to be
close to the subject. I had been reading magazines
and followed their advices. Of course, once in a while
I can't help to crop some pictures when I was not
close enough...nobody's perfect!
Sorry girls but I'm slightly biased here as I took
mostly pictures of good looking Kenyan girls..I felt
more inspired I don't know why... :-)
this man tried his luck in Italian to approach me.
My Italian knowledge hardly going beyond 'ma qué bella
ragazza', or 'cornuto' we switched on to English. This
gentleman happens to be Ethiopian, hence his attempt
in Italian. He asked for one shot only of him with the
church in the background and maybe I'd send it to him
over the postal service? Unusual but not rare. He was so
sweet I couldn't say no. I also remembered a
fellow Masai who proudly showed me the family
album with no more than 15 pictures in it, for
a lifetime! I came back from 3 days in Nairobi with 400...
with films I'd have done 3 or 4 rolls I guess.
Nairobi is very cosmopolitan.
and here below, another series with a matatu driver that
doesn't see the point of stopping for passengers to get out!
too bad for the wire, I know but this is only for a blog purpose,
that is like a diary. It's not a coffee table book!
she knew I was shooting her, she tried to
pretend she didn't notice but her smile
betrayed her. Rare to see an African city-
dweller shaved like this, without hair extension.
It fits her perfectly I think.
many beautiful girls...
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